Orthodox Clerics Call For Stop To War In Ukraine In Rare Challenge To Russian Government

RFE/RL ^ | 01MAR2022 | Staff

[AdmSmith]

The letter, now signed by 276 clerics
ОБРАЩЕНИЕ СВЯЩЕННОСЛУЖИТЕЛЕЙ РУССКОЙ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЙ ЦЕРКВИ С ПРИЗЫВОМ К ПРИМИРЕНИЮ И ПРЕКРАЩЕНИЮ ВОЙНЫ
read it here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca_U5DOLdKykv5VZFuJkyMf04gAArOEhYDRDXNHVso1YGrmQ/viewform

[Arcadian Empire]

Putin’s propaganda isn’t persuading the millions of good people in Russia.

Americans need to know that and drop the Russophobia.

[AdmSmith]

Please add to the Orthodox ping.

[AdmSmith]

Agree.

[lightman]

Orthodox Ping!

Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!

[rrrod]

The Russian savages need to leave.

[BiglyCommentary]

A few of the Putin fan boys posted how St Vlad was the guardian of the Orthodox church.

[decal]

“Putin’s propaganda isn’t persuading the millions of good people in Russia.”

What’s “Let’s Go, Brutin!” in Russian and Cyrillic?

[rrrod]

Yeah...like all of the former Soviet states are all cuddly with the Russians...they hate Russians for very good reasons.

[rrrod]

They get their talking points daily. Fun to watch.

[BiglyCommentary]

Soon Putin will be like Hitler in the final weeks before the end, isolated all alone down in some bunker, just a few fanatical devoted stooges at his side.

[Campion]

Putin has gone well out of his way to identify Orthodoxy with Russian patriotism. This is gonna leave a mark ...

[MercyFlush]

“Putin’s propaganda isn’t persuading the millions of good people in Russia.”

Euronews had a piece today with a series of interviews in what looked like the Severny District of Moscow. A prevailing theme among those interviewed was the denial that Russia was invading Ukraine. Most of these people seemed to have no knowledge of the war in Ukraine.

One younger person called for peace.

A girl with Kool-Aid hair objected to the war.

A 40-ish lady supported the invasion and was adamantly pro-Putin.

A much older lady was saying unkind (profane) things about Putin and I found her quite funny.

But most denied that there was a war going on.

I found this interesting.

[AdmSmith]

What’s “Let’s Go, Brutin!” in Russian and Cyrillic?

Do you mean Et tu, Brute? = И ты, Брут?

[Renfrew]

That is very interesting, and it means problems for Putin.

You can’t keep a major war a secret from your population for very long.

[AdmSmith]

Putin has gone well out of his way to identify Orthodoxy with Russian patriotism. This is gonna leave a mark ...

He was searching for an identity for his kidnapping of the country and found something in the archives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/05/23/russias-well-connected-patriarch/001a0afb-33ad-46af-8d87-02c01f3b5709/

https://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/01-4_armes.pdf

[AdmSmith]

A few of the Putin fan boys posted how St Vlad was the guardian of the Orthodox church.

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

[fidelis]

ОБРАЩЕНИЕ СВЯЩЕННОСЛУЖИТЕЛЕЙ РУССКОЙ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЙ ЦЕРКВИ С ПРИЗЫВОМ К ПРИМИРЕНИЮ И ПРЕКРАЩЕНИЮ ВОЙНЫ

Well, there you have it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Putin is SUPPOSED to be an Orthodox Christian. I remember reading of his conversion a few years back.

Again SUPPOSED to be an Orthodox Christian.

By their works you will know them.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Пошли, Брутин!