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An interesting interview for some insight into how things are going/will go for the Ukrainians that DONT WANT to you know....just accept losing a chunk of their nation...
 
Not to mention that Christianity has made a big comeback in Russia. Some say Putin himself has played a major role in revival of the Russian Orthodox Church. Communism is an aetheist ideology, so no, they are no longer communist. But some people won't believe it till they read it in some fringe publication from the fever swamps.
I follow this with national and international news. Religious news too. Discussions, debates and studies on a fairly regular basis.

I follow this with some of my studies concerning religion when it comes to the Christian Orthodox Churches.

Russian, Greek, and sometimes a bit of Coptic online. They speak in English or have subtitles in English.

Putin has played a huge role and many people including young people are flocking to the ROC in Russia.

Add in some other monks and priests. I am not allowed to put up various links HERE when it comes to THEIR discussions regarding these matters.

I would say more but it may get blunt. I do BELIEVE that the ROC is trying to help and grow families in a depraved world - society by discussing morals and many other things that many Americans scoff at or condemn due to these things not being popular in our own American SICKO SOCIETY.

I am following a man, I lost his link but I shall find it, who is teaching English, some religious studies and computer (?) stuff outside of Moscow by an hour or so. He moved his family to Russia and he may become a Priest over there. It is quite interesting. He had a LIST of things that he wanted to do from a to z including home schooling his children, etc. and personally - in some ways HE and his family are MORE FREE in that town and country compared to the USA.

Personally, there is a lot more to say about his life which are GOOD things from a to z OVER there than what I see going on stateside with CRAZY LAND and SENILE LAND and the freaks in the R and D parties who worship - ing PNAC policies.

I did not read any fringe item when I did my own research. IT is open on all kinds of news links especially if a person is VERY interested in world events, other cultures, ALL kinds of people, geography, history and in religious studies.

I am happy that CRIMEA is back with Russia too. Most of the people in Crimea wanted that due to various reasons. I have a friend who is close to some Russians and one American who married a Russian lady.

Way back when, my late Mom went to HS and college with several people who escaped from Russia - their parents. They HATED communism and FLED their country and there is more to say there but I will just be quiet now. LOL

My late Mom's only sister, no brother, married a RUSSIAN born sea captain. HIS family's background was VERY interesting and his Dad was high up in government - law work BEFORE the Revolution. He was much OLDER than Aunt Rose. They moved to Alaska, she married him in NY, he served in the Merchant Marines, he became an American citizen, etc. They moved to Alaska right before or close to when WW2 started. I do not remember ever meeting them even as a little kid since I was born in 1950. I did have many B/W pictures and OLD letters that got passed on to us from my Mom. My sister has them now. Mom's BLOOD - BIRTH mother went to Alaska once a year in the 50's and on. She stopped the trips to Finland, Scandinavian and Nordic countries and concentrated on one LONG trip to Alaska and seeing us twice a year in MD. We would see her in NY but usually we spent more time in NY with other people when we left MD.

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Ive even got a hammer and sickle tattooed on my arm.
I mentioned one of my late Mom's old HS and college friends.

A Russian lady who became an American citizen and so did her parents.

I knew her well. Her name was Natasha.

Funny thing, Natasha's SON married a Russian lady. He met her in Russia. I have NO clue on the exact year though.

When he was a younger man, he did some translation work at the United Nations.

He was big into computer work too.

Cate
 
Communism is a economic and social system they havent practiced since the early 90's and really about a decade before that. . Communist isnt just a word for someone you dont like or who does things that threaten your hegemony. Most Americans have ZERO idea what communism was in practice. The days to day stuff.. You know, how it really worked at least in the Soviet Union. The command economy state owned businesses are a thing of the past. The kids of government owned company employees dont get three months of summer/work camp any more. Literally nothing remains of the apparatchik process . Guaranteed employment is over. Russian businesses are privately owned and go out of business if they make no money. The Russians are rogue independents on the world stage at this point. If anything the modern Russians are near pure capitalists . Kind of like the US in the robber baron era. Communists? Ha. Not even slightly. They have their sphere of influence they protect , they sell natural resources to the outside world, some pretty good weapons , nuclear reactors and thats about it. Matryoshka dolls. We have no economic leverage against the Russians and their economy is remarkably self sufficient compared to ours. Sanctions mean nothing to them because they are oversanctioned already. Theyve been kicked out of every world club but the UN there is because they dont give a damn about our rules. Can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.
This!

Cate
 
Its not really a dictatorship. Putin keeps getting reelected because well, quite frankly he is doing exactly what the Russians want. There is no real opposition to his parties rule. None that would sway the polls by more than a few points anyway. There is nothing Communist about it. He's just that popular in Russia. We hear about the opposition this and that but theyre really just fringe groups without a lot of following. Communism is a economic situation not a means to dictatorships. Plenty of non communist dictators out there. Again this comes around to the ignorance of what communism is/was in Russia. Having spent a lot of time there in the 90's and early 2000's I'd have to say they are about as Communist as Germany and less so than France.
This!

Cate
 
He expelled George Soros and his left-wing NGOs from Russia, and spared the Russians from the moral and societal degradation now plaguing the United States. Russia may be a dictatorship, or an oligarchy, how ever you may choose to look at it, but it can no longer be considered communist by any measure.
This!

Thank you.

Cate
 
There has been an active war in the Donboss region for some time. We see repeated media lies about it here in the USA, but get little else. The US should stay out of it. It's not our fight. Donboss is right on the Russia border. It is their fight and their interest. Not ours. Let the corrupt Ukranians deal with it themselves instead of paying off our President and his relatives under the table with our own US aid cash.

If Biden wants a war, send Hunter over and let him see what he can do. Leave me and mine out of it.
Amen!

Cate
 
Was 50,000 dead draftees in the Vietnam War coddling? This playing generation against generation is as old as screaming racist every time folks don't like the world they are in. Blame the corrupt politicians, they are the full reason the country suffers.
This is NOT directed to you, LWH. It is to the other person but thank you for your reply here.

I am 71 years old.

My late husband was a decorated Nam Veteran and all over the world with the USN.

He was older than me.

He served with the Air NG Fighter Wing and had a NON .gov job. He was all over the world, more than stateside, if you ADD it all up even as a weekend warrior too.

He was not drafted. He volunteered. He detested communism. He was a conservative man. He was very active in his rural community and so was I as his wife from another state. (East Coast born and raised = me.)

As a 'boomer' - I resent people who, NOT you - LWH, who always think or thought that ALL boomers were draft dodgers, dirty hippies, full of drugs or booze, and a whole bunch more.

I was raised VERY conservative and so was my late husband.

Blame the freaking politicians in BOTH parties AND the PNAC POLICIES in the R and D parties - f-ing NEO CON JOB ARTISTS.

Blame ALL SICKO and ANTI AMERICAN 'movements'.

Blame the DECLINE of American values and OPEN and SHUT DOWN discussions where all you hear is a bunch of FALSE PROMISES and dumb @@@es - CULT FOLLOWERS who follow the D and R Senile Land and Crazy Land Presidents and other politicians who are NOTHING but liars, thieves, grifters and false gods! Throw in their disgusting children that we DID NOT ELECT and do no elect or want. I have some words for them but you can use the above words right now.

Old Lady Cate
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Zacklies!

I am part of that generation he names, and I did my 20 the hard way, doing things no mothers son should ever have to do, or bear witness to, and I take great offence to that statement and demand he apologies right quick and in a hurry like!
My late husband served over 20 years total. See my other post.

Full time military - USN Volunteer - Nam and all around the world and Air NG Fighter Wing (Not full time.) plus he worked a NON .gov job.

He was a Volunteer Fireman/EMT and taught THIS in our own county/township and in other counties FOR free - maybe he got a free lunch. LOL

Throw in ALL of his other volunteer work and mine especially with the LIBRARIES.

OMG!

Plus we worked outside the home, no children, and we CARED for elderly loved ones who did not get stuck into a warehouse - nursing facility. Throw in all of the other work that we did for them when they were healthy! Crikey.

Cate
 
FIFY. If we're gonna play the blame game, let's do it right.

Putin is not interested in rebuilding the USSR. He wants to return those areas which are majority populated by ethnic Russians to Russian rule. The conflict with the Ukraine is over the Donbass region, which is majority Russian. He did not take all of Georgia, which he easily could have, only the majority Russian areas. Crimea was historically Russian, not Ukrainian. During the era of the USSR, a lot of Russians migrated to non-Russian areas. Traditional boundaries were blurred during this period, and when the USSR split up, a lot of ethnic Russians were left behind. This is the root of the conflict. It has nothing to do with communism or restoring the USSR.


Putin doesn't care about the great reset. He is not a globalist. He is most certainly a Russian nationalist. The old cold war stereotypes just don't fit in the present day..
THIS!

Cate
 
Putin plays on a few themes, one of which is the Motherland must be protected and hostiles on the border is a fail at that protection. That's the basis of his 'red line' rhetoric. Doesn't matter that times and tech have changed, that message resonates and will for... generations if not forever.

Anyway, I'll say it: there will be blood. In Ukraine. In the next few weeks. A combo of wanting to blood some new org/tech in the Russian military, weak leadership in the US/Europe, having the advantage economically, insignificant opposition at home... basically little/no downside to a little adventurism. So yeah, he'll do it.

If I'm wrong I'll be disappointed if y'all don't make fun of me!
Hard to say, but there has been a civil war raging there for quite some time. Here's 2 more local and more extensive similar views:
http://thesaker.is/why-russia-didnt-shoot-anything-down-yet/
 
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Communism is a economic and social system they havent practiced since the early 90's and really about a decade before that. . Communist isnt just a word for someone you dont like or who does things that threaten your hegemony...
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Socialism: The foundational idea of socialism is to achieve collective ownership over the means of production AND the distribution of goods produced. The objective of Socialism is equality and elimination of hierarchies by using the benefits of production to meet everyone's needs equally. That doesn't necessarily mean government ownership or administration over distribution (it can instead be owned and administered by the masses), although government control is clearly the way it tends to work out in the real world. Socialism is a political system, but think of it as more economic in its approach by changing the economic structures of society, and change may come about through reforms and/or revolution.

Marxism: Marxism is, collectively, the critical political, economic, and social theories put forth by the 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx. Marx examined history to show the political imbalance between three main socioeconomic classes: The owners of the means of production, known as capitalists. Those concerned with property value, whom he called a French name, "bourgeoisie" (meaning middle class). And the "proletariat" (another French word meaning wage earners, by which Marx meant the poorer classes). These class separations resulted from capitalism and its inequitable distribution of profit and property ownership. In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the main problem preventing the proletariat from gaining socioeconomic equality with other classes because the bourgeoisie seek to perpetuate their dominance through manipulation of the proletariat. Consequently, there must be a proletariat revolution to achieve equality through state ownership of property, wealth, and production. Marxism is a socioeconomic system, but think of it as more political in its approach to changing society, and change must come about through revolutionary means.

Communism: The word Communism is derived from Karl Marx's seminal work, The Communist Manifesto. Communism is the final form of world government attained when a successful proletariat revolution eliminates all social and economic class differences for everyone, and all members of society equally share in the benefits of production. There would no longer be any gap on the planet between rich and poor, between owners and workers, between oppressors and oppressed. Everyone would have equal social, economic, and political status. Because Marx's idea of Communism requires revolution on a global scale it has never been achieved, despite that North Korea, Vietnam, China, Cuba, and Laos proclaim themselves to be Communist countries.

Fascism: This is the "-ism" that gets abused the most, which is to say it is the least understood. It is not well understood because it lasted very briefly, just 30 years between 1915 and 1945, in only one country, Italy, and never had well defined tenets. The word Fascism derives from "fascio" which in Italian means a bundle of sticks. The idea was that a bundle of sticks has inherent strength because a bundle of sticks is harder to break than a single stick. By extension, a people united in their dedication to the nation create a stronger country than a mass of disparate individuals. Under Mussolini, that meant the concentration of power under one man (one party) who could intensify nationalism and more swiftly transition Italy's social and economic structures to modernize and improve. Like Socialism and Marxism, Fascism also had a focus on equality, but not forced socioeconomic equality by taking over the means of production as much as creating successful conditions for all Italians to equally benefit from an advancing nation, and in turn every Italian was equally responsible to serve the nation's cause. An authoritarian government was seen as a necessity in order to more efficiently allocate limited resources toward achieving Italy's advancement as quickly as possible. Of course, that efficiency came at the cost of oppression for any group in Italy that diverged, particularly those on the left (Socialists, Communists, and similar).

Entire college courses and hundreds of books have been written about these "-isms" so the nutshell descriptions above are just that. Likewise, not every scholar agrees how to define these "=ism" terms, so just like with folks on this forum, there is lots of room for interpretation.

As a side note, the truly comical group that doesn't even understand its own name is "Antifa," which stands for "anti-Fascist." That's great, I'm glad they are opposed to Fascism, but can somebody please send them the big news that Fascism ended 76 years ago in Italy? And even more comical is equating Fascism with their rather goofy ideas about "authoritarianism" such that authoritarianism is short hand for anything they don't like, thus they label virtually everything they oppose as "Fascist." The biggest laffer of all is when they literally classify Nazism under Fascism, which goes to show how utterly unaware they are (and how broadly the word Fascism is misunderstood). Buffoons, but hey, at least we get comic relief...
 
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Communism: The word Communism is derived from Karl Marx's seminal work, The Communist Manifesto. Communism is the final form of world government attained when a successful proletariat revolution eliminates all social and economic class differences for everyone, and all members of society equally share in the benefits of production. There would no longer be any gap on the planet between rich and poor, between owners and workers, between oppressors and oppressed. Everyone would have equal social, economic, and political status. Because Marx's idea of Communism requires revolution on a global scale it has never been achieved, despite that North Korea, Vietnam, China, Cuba, and Laos proclaim themselves to be Communist countries.
That does not in any way describe what Communism was in Soviet Russia in actual practice. I like to describe Soviet Communism as what would happen if labor unions took over the country then expand on that idea.
 
That does not in any way describe what Communism was in Soviet Russia in actual practice. I like to describe Soviet Communism as what would happen if labor unions took over the country then expand on that idea.
Because there has never been a truly communist government. They get stuck in what they call "the dictatorship of the proletariat" because true communism is unobtainable due to human nature to relinquish power.
 
Because there has never been a truly communist government. They get stuck in what they call "the dictatorship of the proletariat" because true communism is unobtainable due to human nature to relinquish power.
And none of that matters. Theoretical Communism was never a viable real world condition. If we are talking about Soviet communism and whether what they have now is Communism or even slightly comparable to what they used to have the answer to both questions is no. The modern Russians are NOT Communist and the Oligarchy of the 90's and early 2000's is largely gone too . Soviet Communism was what it was and it was peculiar and nuanced to be sure but thats not what they have now.

They are Nationalists . So are we.
 
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