Russia Today
December 9, 2019
PUTIN’S Russia is not a bastion of Christian values. It’s Communism with a new look — and Communism never was about liberating the people. Critics of the state are imprisoned and assassinated. It’s illegal to evangelize outside a state-recognized church. Highly-concentrated wealth (always a characteristic of Communism), taunting militarism and cruel power rule. Yegor Zhukov, 21, a university student heading to prison for dissident views, stated, according to Moscow Times:
“The only traditional value that the current Russian state truly honors and strengthens is autocracy. Autocracy that tries to break the life of anyone who sincerely wishes the best for their homeland, who doesn’t hesitate to love and take responsibility.”
“As a result, the citizens of our long-suffering country had to learn that no good deed goes unpunished, that the authorities are always right simply because they’re the authorities, that happiness here may be possible — but not for them.”
“Having learned that, they began to gradually disappear.”
“Miron Fyodorov [popular rapper Oxxxymiron], who attended my hearings many times, once correctly observed: Our alcohol is cheaper than textbooks.”
“The state has created all the conditions to ensure that, between responsibility and irresponsibility, Russians will choose the latter.”
“According to [state statistics agency] Rosstat, Russia is gradually disappearing at a rate of minus 400,000 people a year… They drink from powerlessness, they freeze in unheated hospitals, they’re killed by someone, they kill themselves — just like you and me.”
“The current situation in the country destroys any opportunity for human prosperity: 10% of the most affluent Russians have concentrated 90% of the country’s wealth.”
“What’s left below is only despair. Knowing that they have nothing to count on and they won’t be able to bring happiness to themselves or their families no matter how hard they try, Russian men either take out all their anger on their wives, get drunk or hang themselves.”
“Violence unleashes impunity and leads to irresponsibility, just as violence doesn’t lead to love.”
“Putin is a proven fraud and communist.”
Russia cultivates American military members.
