I'm all in.
Posted on 09/25/2021 6:04:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
A government-sponsored program, One Hectare in Siberia, provides free distribution of real estate, about 2.5 acres, to anyone who would put it to use, and after a five year period the land is converted into one’s private property.
There had been no church in the village of Kotikovo, Khabarovsk Province. The residents had little chance to build one – but when this program was put into effect, they procured a lot in the village center with an abandoned building on it and set out to make it their church.
Today, the renovation is over, the new roof and dome are mounted, the electricity is on, and the Sanctuary and icon screen are in place. The church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Divine Liturgy is celebrated regularly along with other services, as well as the the Sacrament of Baptism. On major Church Feasts, visitors often come from remote places.
“We are elated by having gotten the land so easily,” says Mrs. Fedorenko, the beneficiary of the program, “after five years it will become the property of the Russian Orthodox Church.”
Nearly 100,000 lots have already been distributed through the One Hectare in Siberia program. More to come.
And a Siberian Khatru in each pot.
Thanks but....I’ll pass.
Nice use of unusual lyrics. Gratifying to see that Freepers have enough style and class to understand great prog rock.
Only 1 hectare? Make it 500 with a river and we’ll talk.
I saw them a year or two before Chris Squire died. They basically played Close to the Edge and Fragile straight through, and a couple/few misc. encore songs.
Awesome. Here’s the set list. I didn’t even have to look very hard.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/yes/2014/atlanta-symphony-hall-atlanta-ga-63c14e83.html
Heckuva show.
I’d do it if I didn’t have family.....
Awful mosquitos in the summertime, too. So bad it makes you pray for winter.
I'm all in.
I assumed this was 1921.
I’ve seen them several times over the years. Always a phenomenal concert, even when I didn’t yet understand Tales from Topographic Oceans.
Great tagline, by the way.
I think that was the first time I saw them, touring behind that album. Likewise, several times over 4 decades plus some.
A they go Capitalist we go Communist.
They drove my ancestors out once already after promises of free churches and land.
Ironic isn’t it? Russia becomes ‘freer’ while America dives headlong into communism/marxism.
Have to wonder why a bunch of Muscovites and folks from Peter don’t become more aggressive about land in Eastern Siberia, even though a long ride.
It makes sense that Moscow would want more people North of China, despite the strong 2010 joint Russia-China defense pact.
Also have to consider real land ownership, and control of land. That is tricky.
The church idea has to mean some kind of permissive extension of national Russian Orthodox Church endeavors, as most denominations and evangelicals would not be welcome.
I have spent a good portion of my life in Russia, and have known dozens of evangelical missionaries thrown out, beginning in the 1990’s (all the way to the present), as well as formerly underground Russian pastors who have been severely persecuted (even today), and churches shut down.
Have personally crossed paths with Russian Orthodox priests who were very gnostic and agnostic at best, and quite protective of national socialist policies, who were very close to military and police leadership.
I briefly worked with priests (plural) in Moscow who were also FSB.
Some of my most undesired “run-ins” came from leadership at Sergei Posad and from Moscow, who were largely agnostic, (with one collar wearing priest who was atheist), who were very leftist politically (similar to Pope Francis, but more nationalistic), who successfully worked to get a good number of evangelical missionaries thrown out of Russia.
One priest I knew from the East side of Moscow (who taught philosophy at Moscow State University, and several satellite schools), literally taught “there is no truth in the universe, including that of a God, with one exception - there is no truth.” He was in very close with a number of FSB just East of the Kremlin.
He too would have to fall into the category of atheistic.
Siberia has many very beautiful rural places, but if Russia mixes it up (militarily) in a big way in the West (Eastern Med region), China is big enough (for now) in population and military, to walk right into Siberia.
China is already the biggest trader (by far) of materials and goods with Eastern Siberia.
If Russia possessed, and adhered to a constitution as strong on limited government as the once practiced US Constitution, now that would be something!
Indeed. Do you know that in winter, trucks drive across the ice from north to south...rather than driving around it.
Many billionaires in Russia., I was particularly interested in Khodorkovsky who disagreed with Putin at a large meeting of Russian rich fellows and was sent to Siberia for awhile, ended up exiled in France, I believe. There was a youtube video of the large round-table meeting where Putin got mad at him and sent him off.
I occasionally look at an online publication called “Russia Beyond the Headlines,” that features cultural things like great recipes, pictures and reports on old churches, etc.
Not right away
Not right away
Here’s a youtube channel from a Danish ex-pat living somewhere in Siberia...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq3CjAhR9foEpCXj88sMAKQ
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