Do you think something is going down this weekend? ?
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UTTER BS! You, very obviously, have no idea what is happening in today's Russia if you somehow think they "survived" and these days all is hunky dory. You should spend some time on Russian boards to see just how many are now PINING to bring back the "good old days of Soviet Union". Just think about that, you somehow think that things have improved. All you have as improvement is access to McDonald's now and ability to buy a car and phone. 70% of the place is using outhouses TODAY, retirement age has been raised, and ALL retirements savings people have been accumulating in government run accounts for decades in USSR magically vanished into thin air leaving retirees, literally, dying of hunger. Every cop is beyond corrupt and if in days of old you paid protection monies to criminals now you directly to cops, in the open. Some protection, right.
And, BTW, that supposed and imagined Russian gov resignation last year was done precisely to put even more screw to people's lives, you are now fined for using cuss words (kid you not, check it). The gov voted for new idiotic laws, also gave itself nice raises (while limiting others' pensions and ability to earn), resigned en masse, and then came back en masse with absolutely everyone keeping their job in the process. Some "resignation".
Before making a point at least have a bit of familiarity with a subject. USSR/Russia have never recovered.
Nothing to presume. You, very obviously, didn't comprehend anything I said. They didn't "survive", they are STILL FRIGGING "SURVIVING". NOTHING CHANGED. Is this clear enough? Top 1% lives like kings, the rest are slaves by most parameters.
Same with Red China. Yes, they allow you to buy a new nice and shiny thing here and there, but you are STILL a SLAVE to the communist assholes. You know, The Great Reset being pushed onto us now, already installed and (mostly) perfected. They tell you what to think, they tell you what to say, they decide when you are past the "expiration date". Top 1% lives like kings, the rest are slaves who are simply allowed to exist.
Is this the "survived" part in your rantings? Tell me, this is "survival" to you? Its mere existence.
You know why Russians are joking there is no chance of Russia getting into a war with USA and UK? Because ALL of the elite 1% have their kids attend schools here and then staying to live here as well, and many of the 1% actually have second homes here as well. The place they teach people to hate.
This does not, in any way, full the people there, who are merely "surviving", as you put it, while trying to get to the next paycheck.
I think one of the good things is today in Russia Orthodoxy isn't being matryed out of existence like it was in the USSR. They have much more religious freedom than before.
Depends on how you look at it. They are building churches all over, destroying city parks in the process if a church wants prime land (doesn't sit well with locals who are used to parks for their kids to play in). The bad part? They have closed tens of thousands of schools in the process, education system is now on par with ours. Putin ex-communicated Soros, who invested heavily into dumbing down education same way he did here, but seemingly too late. So, while people, in general, HAVE turned to God, their current young generation is still brain washed to hell and back by the education system and are increasingly turning against religion, and are now demanding return of USSR. Memorials to Stalin are being built, historical monuments destroyed here and there, utter disrespect for veterans of WWII, nowhere near the scale we see here, but rather concerning, still. The new generation is godless, clueless and hopeless, not much different than what we see here. And Russian Church never misses an opportunity to stick their opulent living in people's faces all the while preaching against it, so now even those who turned to religion since the fall are questioning the whole thing.
I am more in favor of the Russian Orthodox Church than I am of the Greek Orthodox Church (Met. Bartholomew I) so I may be a bit bias, in the Orthodox church its heavily condemned accepting gifts from people in power I know the ordeal with the autocephaly of the Ukraine churches by Bart was seen as a very bad move and Bart accepting some sort of deal in his favor for this move. Which caused Russia and Constantinople to cut ties, while this is a move that is beneficial for Copts as we have a better relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church.
As for what you have said, I haven't heard any of that from my Russian Orthodox friends, so I can not say it is or isn't true. Putin isn't a good leader, but he is a better leader than when Russia was under the USSR, Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica was a Serbian but he also suffered a lot from the persecution, I remember him talking about when he was arrested and thrown into jail there were a lot of priests and monks that had that happen to them.
Well, at least Putin is not selling the country, so there is that. Corrupt? Of course, and helping his friends as well. That said, had he not taken over we'd see a complete destruction and selling out, a la Xiden, by Khodorkovsky and rest of oligarchs. So, the devil I know versus one I do not, main reason so many, as much as they know what's going on, still prefer Putin since he, at least, is a patriot of Russia.
All I am saying is you'd be very disappointed with what's going on in Russia as it relates to their Orthodoxy, as corrupt as the gov, very intertwined by now. Its not Vatican and red shoes by any means, Russians would never stand for that, but graft, opulance in your face, priests wearing 2-3 kilo crosses/chains (ala our rappers here), driving very expensive Mercs and Rollses, having gov enforce very unlawful real estate takeovers of prime land and houses, etc. All the while preaching very opposite values. People aren't blind when corruption is on display.
Not at all saying the religion itself is bad, just the other side of it in Russia no one here reports.