28 April 2011. There’s Bears in the Gutter and be Careful NOT to Utter a Sound that Might Disturb Them…

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I thought of my Nicky when I saw these… I think that these will get the Russian Bear Growl of Approval… luv ya, dear!

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28 April 2011. Only in Russia… One of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Mascots Unveils a New Sberbank Credit Card…

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28 April 2011. Our “Smaller Brothers”… Братья наши меньшие

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Leonid, the Alpha Cat of Sevastopol… he’s a Navy BDK with an official ID card with photo… BDK is a Large Landing Cat, a play on the Russian acronym for Large Landing Ship…

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28 April 2011. A Russian Point of View. Socialism is GOOD… the Church Says So!

Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev (1946- ) of Moscow and all the Russias with Gennady Zyuganov (1944- ), the First Secretary of the KPRF

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Gennady Andreyevich with Kirill Mikhailovich in a friendly moment

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Fr Vsevolod Chaplin (1968- ), sitting across the table from Gennady Andreyevich. Don’t forget, Vsevolod Anatolyevich is the closest confidant of KMG… not the oligarch-bum-kisser Alfeyev.

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This is direct EVIDENCE of the alliance between the Church and the Party. Those such as Potapov, JP, Freddy M-G, Dreher, and Kishkovsky, who want to ally us with greedy Republican scummers, are Mammon-worshipping rebels outside the Mind of the Holy Church. You can have Christ or you can have the dribbling Tea Party nutters… you can’t have both. Choose well…

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As a lifelong member of the Russian Orthodox Church, I’d like to present a slightly different view of the ROC and the Communist Party. While there were indeed periods of revolutionary and ideological excesses directed against the Church and Her Faithful in the USSR, there were also long periods of good cooperation. I know. I lived there. No one wanted the collapse of the USSR. However, that didn’t matter; other forces brought the collapse about and a return to capitalism.

Now, let’s look at “free” Russia…

• Millions are poor and even starving
• Homeless people by the hundreds of thousands across the former USSR eat out of garbage dumps and dwell in metro stations and under bridges
• Prostitution like we never saw before
• Open and vulgar displays of alternative life styles
• Drug trade
• Pornography
• A record number of abortions
• Joblessness
• For the first time since Stalin, illiteracy
• Open racism and ethnic hate
• In the Ukraine and the Baltics, an adoration of Hitler!
• In the Western Ukraine, they try to force Catholicism on the Orthodox

There’s much more wrong, too.

Now, the Communist Party has apologised to the Church and the Church accepted it. In many places, the Church and Party work together to try and salvage what was good and prevent the growth of capitalism, along with “freedom’s” evils. This article is very important. It reveals the reality of situation “on the ground” in the former communist countries. The former USSR learned, too late, to embrace at least respect for Christianity. The price was high. We Soviets learned that the gates of Hell won’t destroy the Church, but they can destroy Socialism. We learned this too late. As a Russian Orthodox Christian, I lament the persecution of my Church by the Party. Now, I lament the loss of Socialism. “Freedom” and capitalism are much worse persecutors.

“Vsevolod”