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March 1997
45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin (pictured, left) is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff.
List of journalists killed in Russia
The Kremlin’s Religious Crusade
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35388
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Since ancient times the Kremlin has used religion to manipulate people. The tsars employed the Church to instill domestic obedience. The Soviet rulers kept the population quiet through the KGB, but they dreamed about world revolution. After the home front had calmed down, they charged the KGB to work through the church to help the Kremlin expand its influence into Latin America and beyondsince Peter the Great, Russian tsars have been obsessed with finding a way to break into the New World.
Creating a secret intelligence army of religious servants and using it to promote the Kremlins interests abroad was an important task the KGB community had during the 27 years I belonged to it. Thousands of uncooperative religious servants were killed or sent to gulags. The compliant ones were used. Since priests were not allowed to become KGB officers, they assumed the position of cooptee or deepcover officer. A cooptee received perks from the KGB (promotions, trips abroad, foreign cigarettes, foreign beverages, etc). A deepcover officer enjoyed the same perks, plus a secret supplementary salary according to his real or imaginary KGB rank. To preserve their secrecy, all priests who became cooptees or deepcover officers were known inside the KGB only by their code names.
Recent revelations show that the KGB continues along the same religious crusade as before, although it has meanwhile been discreetly renamed the FSB[1] to promote the idea that the criminal Soviet political police, which killed over 20 million people, has been dispersed to the winds of change.
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The world is changing whether we or our culture elitists like it or not. So, who will the drivers of future change be.
Well, whatever it is that Putin is in the process of doing, Obama declared himself flexible and amenable. Obama’s ties with Communists are legion.
It isn’t whether God is on their side, it is whether they are on God’s side. I’d guess no.
“My kingdom is not of this world,” Pat. Do you speak it?
Actually, God is on your side, Vet.
More a question of which leader will take God’s side. If neither, then it may be the fate of a lot of people to get converted into “organic residue”.
I’ll wait for the speech wherein Putin either quotes the Bible or mentions God.
The old paradigm of Russian leader equals bad, USA President equals (basically) good is long dead. Probably died with Reagan but we didn’t notice at the time. Currently there are a few blocks of power vying for influence around the world - the EU, Russia, China and the US as well as the constantly undermining factor of the UN and the destructive force of Islam. It used to be that you could count on the US and European Nations to be the good guys - no longer and I am not sure that if that would change with a change of leadership in the US. They all seem hell bent in going the same way despite the protestations of most of their inhabitants. They are all anti-Christian and anti-Israel. It seems that fulfillment of the Prophetic Christian texts seems inevitable - it may be just a matter of when!
Mel
Our nation has lost God's blessings and the USA can't muster up enough moral conviction to even begin to slow this slide we're on into pure and unadulterated evil.
We, as a nation, have no moral high ground to stand on, when it comes to comparing ourselves to other powers in the world.
It is disgusting that the only counter influence we can seem to gather around in any magnitude is atheistic secularist in form, being the complaint against the populace being “taxed enough already.” How pathetic is that? Especially pathetic, when we have the evils of abortion, euthanasia, assisted-suicide, healthcare rationing, anti-Judeo-Christinity and anti-family policies already in practice in our official national policies. Yet, our biggest complaint is taxes...how telling.
To pretend we're any better, in God's eyes, than Russia, is sheer delusion.
Vladimir, Prince of the Kievan Rus was baptized in Kiev
They were Christianized by Byzantine priests long before Muscovite Russians
Bump
God is on God’s side.
He will watch over His elect.
I’m rooting for Vlad,
least he’s a Christian, not a moose limb like obammy/
putin ping
Napoleon said God is on the side with the most artillery.
reminds me of a prophecy at Medjugorje that dates to the 1980’s: That the west would reject God and become full of pride, but that Russia would defend God. Sounded crazy back then...