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Makes sense, as Russia was ruled by Jews openly for ~80 years.
It is mildly amusing to know that the world's largest country was a Jewish State and that it, just like Israel, could only survive on alms sent in from goyimland. Though why Richard Nixon was supporting the USSR so hard that he crashed the world food market to do it is something of a mystery.
It was painful coming to this awareness, since my family is Orthodox, and I wanted to believe in “Holy Rus”, and took a couple steps in hopes of transplanting us to a new Orthodox homeland.
But the Russian State is not really as concerned with how faithful you are to Holy Orthodoxy, but rather how willing you are to fellate their Apparatus. Loyalty to Holy Tradition is far less important than loyalty to a particular State-approved Bishop, who will only feed you the sorts of hoops you have to jump through to prove that you’re worth it - after you’ve somehow left an impression on them that you’re not a waste of time.
Needless to say I didn’t get too far, since I quickly realized what they’re really up to.
It’s definitely not some Orthodox Utopia. It’s more like being a prize draft horse for a taskmaster of dubious moral character.
So it is plagued by the worst ills of Roman Catholicism?
A while back, YouTube decided to blast me with videos about some Danish guy living in Russia and he was dropping low-key observations about Russia not being the land of the free that it is hyped up to be. Particularly on guns, as the expectation is that every Russian has an AK but Putin's reality seems to be more in line with what Joe Biden's gun laws would be; even blue states have less heinous gun restrictions.
So 'Murica is really it, the last bastion of freedom anywhere?
So 'Murica is really it, the last bastion of freedom anywhere?
You can probably get away with more in rural Siberia, than most other places - by virtue of sheer scale and logistics. But they’re not afraid of coming down hard on dissidents that they find out in the wilds. In the Soviet Union, there are stories that the authorities were willing to shoot Catacombniks on sight, or worse. They’d scour the countryside for unauthorized religious observance, and make gruesome public examples of them.
It seems as though most of them got away with it, and they’re typically left alone nowadays from what I’ve heard. I mean like little monastic communities of either sex, and/or religious villages built around house churches with clergy the State Church accuses of being “schismatic” - though the only “crime” they committed was refusal to cooperate fully with the Soviets.
Extremely interesting stories from these groups abound. I’d be willing to learn Russian just for this history alone.
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