Do I have this right?
A single listing for a Stalin film on a Christian bookstore website convinced you that the ROC is satanic?
Let’s showcase your truth discernment for all to see right here and now.
Was the film critical of Stalin?
Did it criticise his repressions and mass murders?
Did it talk about how Stalin butchered 99% of the Church’s bishops and most of their priests and monks? That Stalin saw the Church as a great enemy and pounded the table in a speech demanding that more be done against it?
Since this film was a key part in forming your judgement, you must know a lot about it?
Or could it be that you have never seen it and you have no idea?
That you are spouting nonsense smears against millions of other Christians based on things you have no idea about?
Go ahead and make all the wild accusations about how other Christians and freepers are in league with Satan.
I won’t return the accusation, but you’re not very discerning or careful when it comes to truth.
It is not just any "Christian" bookstore or any Stalin film. It is a Pro-Stalin film being sold by the ROC from the same publishing house that printed the Stalin calendar. The Kremlin is pushing Stalin propaganda on the masses, but does not like it to be talked about too much. Whenever it gets too far into the English press, they step back a bit. The Kremlin today denies most of Stalin's crimes and his pact with Hitler, and rationalizes what they do admit to.
website convinced you that the ROC is satanic?
My conclusion on this is based on multiple factors, not just the Stalinist thing. It is based, first, on the KGB patriarch and his corruption. The ROC's role as a propaganda arm for the Kremlin, using Christianity to promote Russian Chauvinism/Nationalism and war against the West. And, finally, the persecution of non-ROC Christians in favor of the ROC:
http://www.christianpersecution.info/russia.php
Was the film critical of Stalin?
The film depicts Stalin as someone falling away from a desire to establish worldwide Marxism and of becoming a Russian patriot with a desire to "revive" Russia. This is part of the Kremlin's campaign to rehabilitate Stalin in order to justify a Stalinist type of government. Read this:
"A nationwide Russian poll seeking to name the greatest-ever countryman is set to end Sunday, and former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is in the running for No. 1, the BBC reported.
Rossiya, one of Russia's biggest television stations, has been conducting the "Name of Russia" poll for most of the year, and the original list of 500 candidates has been narrowed down to 12.
More than 3.5 million people have voted so far, and Stalin, a bloodthirsty tyrant who killed millions of his own people, is riding high on the list.
Some others in the top 12 are Ivan the Terrible, Lenin, Catherine the Great and poet Alexander Pushkin.
Leaders of the Communist Party are not surprised by Stalin's status on the hero list.
"Stalin made Russia a superpower and was one of the founders of the coalition against Hitler in World War II," said Sergei Malinkovich, leader of the St. Petersburg Communist Party.
The St. Petersburg branch of the party in July asked the Orthodox Church to canonize Stalin if he wins the poll.
The broader campaign to revive Stalin as a "hero" appears to be coming from the highest levels of government.
A new manual has been given to history teachers in Russia's schools, which says Stalin acted "entirely rationally," the BBC reported.
"[The initiative] came from the very top," says the editor of the manual, historian Alexander Danilov. "I believe it was the idea of former president, now prime minister, Vladimir Putin."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/12/27/stalin-makes-top-12-in-russia-poll-for-all-time-hero/
At the last minute Stalin's name was switched to some random person no one could possibly know about, most likely because it hit the Western media.
I noticed the same thing happened, in a way, to Alexandr Dugin, the Fascist who did the recruiting early on for Ukraine (since 2006, actually, or earlier), who had worked in some top position in a university in Russia.
A book was published examining Dugin's sick ideology in English, and, after that, Putin made him step down from his position at the university.
On the one hand, Putin wants to propagandize his own people with extremist ideas, but he also doesn't want the West to understand what he believes.
That Stalin saw the Church as a great enemy and pounded the table in a speech demanding that more be done against it?
Remember, this is a revisionist society that believes nothing but lies. See here:
"Today Stalin is the heir of the Russian tsars. For the nationalists – a majority among the Stalinists – he's not even a Georgian, but a Russian and a baptised Orthodox christian! No, no – he didn't blow up the churches including the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, he didn't root out the opium of the people following on from Lenin. After all, he went to seek the advice of St Matrona – you can see that on the TV. Other priests have elevated that closet Orthodox christian Stalin to a saint and practically put icons to him into the church, but it's a bit early for that, so they've had to take them home."
More info at link: https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/tatiana-shcherbina/stalin-%E2%80%93-hero-for-our-time
Or could it be that you have never seen it and you have no idea?
Unfortunately, since it's in Russian, I can't translate the audio for myself without help, thus I had to go by comments about the film from Russians and the film description (from the links posted earlier, use google translate):
"Leninist weapon, consisting of such as he , immigrants brought to Russia in 1917, or as could be expected that after the death of the leader to the fore will be gradually leaving Stalin - man of the clan , to which the idea of world revolution and world dominance will fade before the desire to revive the Russian ...
Extras : God is with us.
As is usually the case with the Russian people , the warrior and protector - in the last moments of life, help comes . And comprehending took place amid one realizes that only he could make no effort . His only will help you win . Win a death and the enemy.
Extras : Three Stalin's speech .
Here are some comments under the film to the link provided earlier:
"The problem of modern society is that they evaluate historical figures in their ideology. But that's not the ideology. Simply, there are statesmen, and there is a fifth column. Yes, the Bolsheviks destroyed the Russian Empire, destroyed the Russian state, but Stalin was a Bolshevik, but he was a statesman and a distinguished him from Lenin, Sverdlov, Trotsky, and other "ardent revolutionaries." "The more facts about Stalin and his era will know more grandiose looming figure of this great genius . For me today - the attitude to Stalin - a measure of the mind and integrity : anti- Stalinist - is either illiterate fool or a scoundrel . No middle ground . " Prof. S. Lopatnikov
"These [removed for FR] just shot ordinary Soviet citizens in 37-39 years, and Stalin with great effort managed to stop the destruction of ordinary citizens, and they responded to the Soviet people, it is proven historical facts! By the way, all the processes were open and youth is to learn once and for navsegda- it was Stalin stopped the repressive machine of the conspirators!"
"This movie once again demonstrates how our enemies pervert our history. In the past week, went 3-episode film on ren-TV and you never dreamed of. His Majesty's Spies. Here is the link to the 2 series. In Youtube there are other 2 series. look-learn a lot about our history"
"6 million prisoners in the United States ....."
"Where are we, Russian, find another such Georgian" (Stalin was actually from Georgia)
"Stalin was a great man and who is bad to say about it they ignoramuses."
Finally, a detractor:
"Dislike + 1
stalin=evil=satana"
I think we can be pretty sure about the contents of this film at this point.