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Let me if I have this right. The Russians are installing a new edition of a previously removed statue of Stalin’s chief executioner, and we in the States are talking about removing a monument to national Reconciliation ( North v. South) located in the Nation’s most hallowed graveyard. Who exactly did you say won the Cold War?
[…] News & Punditry: Iron Felix Is Back – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic Definition of Wokism – Teófilo de […]
CAM
Thursday, September 14, AD 2023 7:24am
The return of a statue to Felix is chilling. It’s like a statue to Satan and portends no good for the future.
Dale Price
Thursday, September 14, AD 2023 8:37am
Patriarch Kirill has no comment.
Art Deco
Thursday, September 14, AD 2023 10:18am
“Who exactly did you say won the Cold War?”
We did. Putin is a man who displays revanchist sentiment. It’s doubtful most of the Russian public is on board with that except in an idle way.
Art Deco
Thursday, September 14, AD 2023 10:22am
“Patriarch Kirill has no comment.”
It would be agreeable if he’d say something, but not strictly necessary.
Fr. J
Thursday, September 14, AD 2023 1:11pm
There is a movie called “The Chekist,” which is very hard to find, but maybe that’s a good thing. For depicting the cold-blooded murder of individuals by the Cheka, there is probably no film more brutal in the stark portrayal of rounding up the victims, stripping them, and then shooting them point-blank. Not easy to watch–and shouldn’t be watched more than once, probably. But it is a good reminder of what Leninism-Stalinism really is at its core.
Tom Byrne
Thursday, September 14, AD 2023 3:38pm
So after using Tsarist imagery all these years, Putin’s now highlighting people who killed off the last Tsar and his supporters. What’s next: hammers and sickles?
To Dale Price and Art Deco: Patriarch Kirill will probably bless the statue.
If “asked” (told) to, he would finagle some way to do so in verbiage vaguely, if shamefully, connected to the otherwise admirable body of faith that is Russian Orthodoxy.
But that would make Putin’s puppet less useful, so he’ll refrain.
I have read that many Russian Orthodox clerics are quietly bristling under Kirill’s toady leadership, but after seeing the former No. 2 exiled to Hungary, they’ll be quiet. Plus, there are too many open windows in multi-story buildings.
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Let me if I have this right. The Russians are installing a new edition of a previously removed statue of Stalin’s chief executioner, and we in the States are talking about removing a monument to national Reconciliation ( North v. South) located in the Nation’s most hallowed graveyard. Who exactly did you say won the Cold War?
KGB Thug? Isn’t that like baby puppies?
[…] News & Punditry: Iron Felix Is Back – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic Definition of Wokism – Teófilo de […]
The return of a statue to Felix is chilling. It’s like a statue to Satan and portends no good for the future.
Patriarch Kirill has no comment.
“Who exactly did you say won the Cold War?”
We did. Putin is a man who displays revanchist sentiment. It’s doubtful most of the Russian public is on board with that except in an idle way.
“Patriarch Kirill has no comment.”
It would be agreeable if he’d say something, but not strictly necessary.
There is a movie called “The Chekist,” which is very hard to find, but maybe that’s a good thing. For depicting the cold-blooded murder of individuals by the Cheka, there is probably no film more brutal in the stark portrayal of rounding up the victims, stripping them, and then shooting them point-blank. Not easy to watch–and shouldn’t be watched more than once, probably. But it is a good reminder of what Leninism-Stalinism really is at its core.
So after using Tsarist imagery all these years, Putin’s now highlighting people who killed off the last Tsar and his supporters. What’s next: hammers and sickles?
To Dale Price and Art Deco:
Patriarch Kirill will probably bless the statue.
If “asked” (told) to, he would finagle some way to do so in verbiage vaguely, if shamefully, connected to the otherwise admirable body of faith that is Russian Orthodoxy.
But that would make Putin’s puppet less useful, so he’ll refrain.
I have read that many Russian Orthodox clerics are quietly bristling under Kirill’s toady leadership, but after seeing the former No. 2 exiled to Hungary, they’ll be quiet. Plus, there are too many open windows in multi-story buildings.