30 December 2012. Home Truths From a Priest in the Rodina

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This is from an MP archpriest in the Western Ukraine:

I was disgusted to hear of your “noble” priest’s mouthing of dirty White Guard propaganda. I could vomit! This is a good example of why many of us have issues with the ROCOR being included again in the Orthodox Church. Ask that prince what WORK his family did to allow them to live in luxury… in palaces, with titles, and with balls and festivals. Ask him why his fathers lived in laziness whilst mine slaved in fields and mines, and why his lived off us. Ask him where the money that WE produced went! More than likely, it went to his grandfathers and their lazy families… and their prostitutes and perversions.

I’m so sick already of how American, Australian, and Canadian clergy judge us. They want to tell us about our Lenin, and about what we “must” do to be “good Orthodox Russians”. To them, we are forever SOVIETS! They must be quiet! Silence them! These criminals and prostitutes of Hitler betrayed our Russia. We should spit on them still! Vlasov was and is a traitor! We’re sick of them; they set fire to Russia, and, then, ran away to America and France, telling us what to do. Filthy! I almost hate them. They helped to destroy our dear Soviet Union, so, now, we all suffer under all this new criminal régime, but those who live abroad praise it. I’m sorry, but I do despise them. I hope we’ll soon have our USSR again, god willing!

Today, we have poverty, people without homes, dirty filthy rich parasites, whores, gays, drugs trade, pornography, sexualised children, racists, and all manner of dirty and deathly crime… thank you, ROCOR whites! Thank you! Before, we had a good life and peace. Now, you “corrected” this. Thanks to you! I’m Soviet forever! Please, know that I pray for you at the Holy Table, but I only tolerate your priests and church. Forgive me for speaking out!

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This was from a priest in the Western Ukraine. When you support Victor Potapov, you spit on him. When you support James Paffhausen, you spit on him. When you support Rod Dreher, Freddie M-G, or Terrence Mattingly, you spit on him.

You can stand with REAL Orthodox Christians such as HH, Fr Vsevolod Chaplin, and this anonymous priest (I removed all traces of his contact information), or you can stand  with phonies like the White Guard ROCOR fanatics (many ended by working for the American special services), the SVS/St Sergius loons, and the konvertsy meatheads. That’s your Real World choice; that’s what on offer, for there’s nothing else.

Not all White émigrés are nasty… not everybody at SVS and the Paris Exarchate are heretics… not all converts are self-centred ignoramuses… but all too many are. You know that I have the habit of speaking the truth. This is one such time. Compare what this confessor archpriest said to the dreck issued by the ROCOR recently. I have much respect for the ROCOR, but I shan’t be silent in the face of arrant falsehood and subservience to the Western powers-that-be. That’s Sergianism (sucking up to the godless powers-that-be) of the vilest sort.

In the late 90s, Victor Potapov showered all sort of lies on the head of His Holiness Patriarch Aleksei Ridiger when Aleksei was at Georgetown University to receive an honorary degree. Today, he’s the centre of a Far Right cabal that mouths loyalty to the Centre, but it’s actually in the thrall of the worst elements in the American political apparat. It’s apparent that all too many haven’t changed their spots. They’re more apologists for Western crapitalism than they’re Partisans of Christ. That’s especially true of the clergy and laity who take Uncle Sugar’s shilling (and there’s more than one of those). Hmm… that includes Potapov, Freddie M-G, and Alexander Webster, and that’s not exhaustive… Dreher and Mattingly are stink-tankers, that makes them K Street parasites; that’s the same as sucking on Uncle Sugar’s tit.

Note well how some loud sorts are either dependent on Western government monies or they’re of the Affluent Effluent. I think that I’m not the only one to have noticed this. Nevertheless, there are only two real choices… Christ and the Mother Church… Mammon and the Godless West. That’s it; there’s nothing else out there. There’s no such thing as “American Orthodoxy” or “Western Orthodoxy”… there’s no historical grounding for either contention. Your choice is stark… stand with the Mother Church or stand with Mammon. You know what Our Lord Christ said on that.

I’ve chosen. I don’t need to tell you where I stand. Now, you must do likewise… for the times demand it. If you do nothing, that’s a choice, and the deluge will roll over you, regardless of your “neutrality”. So, choose well. God be with you…

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Sunday 30 December 2012

Albany NY

11 January 2012. A Photo Essay. “My Name is Ali Isakov, and I’m Kazakh…”

Ali Isakov’s of mixed Kazakh and African heritage. Ali was born to a single mother in Tashkent in 1991. He grew up with his mother until he was 10. His mother was a sales assistant, and they could hardly make both ends meet in the disastrous period after the breakup of the USSR. When he turned 10, she decided to go back to Kazakhstan, her homeland. They headed to a village near Karaganda, in hope that their relatives who lived there would help them. However, when they saw the colour of his skin, they turned Ali and his mother down.

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All that he knows about his father is that he was from Africa. When Ali’s mother learnt that her relatives weren’t going to help them, she had to send her son to the children’s home. Ali says that he got used to the fact that was alone, and he doesn’t want to revive a connection with his mother, who sometimes sends letters to him. However, Ali still cares about his mother and keeps all the letters from her in a folder with his ID documents. It was very difficult for him to be different. It was difficult in the orphanage, and was even more difficult because he was the only one with black skin there. Ali kept asking himself questions, like, “Why am I different?”, “Why don’t I have a loving family?”, and “Why do I always have to prove to other people that I’m Kazakh?”

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When Ali was a child, he’d always lose control when he heard, “Hey, nigger!” from his classmates and put up a fight. Besides that, he couldn’t read until he was 12, and that made the situation even worse. Only now, when he’s a bit more mature, he’s learnt how to turn every comment on his skin colour into a jest. In high school, he began participating in KVN, a humour show and competition, which made him realise that his looks were a big advantage rather than a disadvantage. Ali was so good playing for Bolashak College that the principal asked him to enter the college to stay on the team. Ali agreed, and he enrolled in the faculty of foreign languages to become an interpreter. He understood that if he were to become a successful showman, he’d have to be witty and well-educated. Now, he studies hard, hitting the books, trying to perfect himself.

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If he wanted to, Ali could find work as an interpreter or an official. However, he can’t imagine himself anywhere but on stage, and he thinks it the only right choice for him. He only feels really alive when he’s on stage. In those moments of triumph, he understands that he must work harder, because he deserves the best! His unusual look is what makes him special. People are surprised seeing a black guy speaking the Kazakh language perfectly. Apart from success and fame, Ali dreams of having his own family. He wants a good marriage, to have children. He wants to have people to love and cherish. He’ll do anything to avoid making the same mistakes that his parents did. He wants his children to know who their father is and to be proud of him.

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16 September 2011. A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words… “Forgive Us, Righteous Tsar Nikolai!”

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The above billboards are in Sevastopol, in the Crimea, which is offficially in the Ukraine (but it’s a largely Great Russian area)… Khrushchyov gave it over to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954… that’s the only reason that’s in the “Ukraine” today. Reflect on this… Sevastopol votes heavily for the KPU and it supports such signage… it’s NO contradiction. As a wise MP priest wrote to me, “The only mistake that the communists made was persecuting the Church”… and I agree.

The people are READY for a RED MONARCHY.. and that’s NOT a contradiction in terms… think on that.

BMD