'Only Putin Will Be Left In His Bunker': Muscovites Asked How The War In Ukraine Is Going
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Special military operation not looking so special to the troops these days.
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Russian Troops Baptized in Body Bags as Moscow Pivots to ‘De-Satanization’ of Ukraine
EVERYTHING’S FINE
Nobody really bought the whole “de-Nazification” thing, so the Kremlin has a new catch phrase—and some batshit attempts to make it stick.
Allison Quinn News Editor Published Oct. 26, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...body-bags-as-moscow-pivots-to-de-satanization
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As Russia increasingly seeks to reframe its invasion of Ukraine as a holy war, Vladimir Putin has been declared the chosen one to defeat the “antichrist” and Russian priests have been deployed to the frontline to bolster morale among the troops they now refer to as “soldiers of Christ.”
But a Russian priest unwittingly exposed the Kremlin’s true attitude to the troops by baptizing them in body bags this week.
Viktor Ivanov, a priest for the Russian Orthodox Church in Ufa, detailed his excursion into the so-called “special military operation” zone on social media, sharing photos of a baptism that were likely intended as an uplifting PR effort but came off more as a vote of no-confidence.
While visiting Russian positions on the front line, he wrote, “A strong man approached. … Modestly, as if embarrassed, he looks at me and timidly asks: ‘Father, our fighter wanted to be baptized. Is that possible to do?’”
Ivanov said he sprung into action after realizing there may not be another chance to perform the baptism, asking the troops to search for a basin to fill with water.
But “not a single basin was found,” he said. Instead, the troops found him polyethylene bags—the black ones meant for the bodies of the dead. And then the “long-awaited” baptism was able to go ahead and the soldier’s eyes lit up in recognition of the “great event,” Ivanov wrote.
Sure, “the black polyethylene bags that were used as the baptismal vessels were intended for cargo 200,” he said, using a military code word for the bodies of troops killed in action. But “this baptism had its own symbolism.”
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The bizarre baptism came as Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, ramped up his support for the war Tuesday by claiming Putin is the chosen one to fight against the “antichrist.”
In a speech before the 24th Congress of the World Russian People's Council, Putin’s holy man argued there were “a lot” of signs to indicate the “end of the world” was near—and the Russian leader is the only one who can stop it, a fact which makes other world leaders jealous.
“The example of Russia as a contemporary nation with developed science, technology and education, headed by a president who openly proclaims his faith forces many in the West to ask themselves, ‘why isn’t it like that with us?’” he said.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church is not the only one trying to rewrite the Kremlin’s narrative on the war. While Moscow spent the first several months after the full-scale invasion claiming Russian troops had been sent in to stop “Nazis” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine, that version largely failed to gain traction among the wider public as more and more reports emerged of Holocaust survivors being driven out of their homes or bombed by the same Russian troops supposedly fighting “Nazis.”
Putin’s repeated claim that the war was necessary to stop NATO expansion also flopped, as even some pro-Kremlin military bloggers noted that Moscow’s aggression had actually resulted in NATO strengthening and getting new members.
Now, according to a rather batshit op-ed penned by a Russian official this week, the Kremlin’s new stated goal appears to be the “de-Satanization” of Ukraine.
Alexei Pavlov, deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, claimed in an op-ed in the Arguments and Facts newspaper that as the war drags on, there is “more and more” evidence of cults in Ukraine.
Bizarrely, he went on to argue that Ukrainian leaders who took over after Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanokovych was ousted in 2014 had been tasked by the West with “recalibrating” the brains of Ukrainian citizens using mysterious “psychotechnologies.”
The op-ed, titled “What Is Cooking in the ‘Witch’s Cauldron.’ Neo-pagan cults Are Gaining Strength in Ukraine,” ended with the declaration: “I believe that with the continuation of the special military operation, it is becoming more and more urgent to carry out the de-Satanization of Ukraine.”
EVERYTHING’S FINE
Nobody really bought the whole “de-Nazification” thing, so the Kremlin has a new catch phrase—and some batshit attempts to make it stick.
Allison Quinn News Editor Published Oct. 26, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...body-bags-as-moscow-pivots-to-de-satanization
via VK
As Russia increasingly seeks to reframe its invasion of Ukraine as a holy war, Vladimir Putin has been declared the chosen one to defeat the “antichrist” and Russian priests have been deployed to the frontline to bolster morale among the troops they now refer to as “soldiers of Christ.”
But a Russian priest unwittingly exposed the Kremlin’s true attitude to the troops by baptizing them in body bags this week.
Viktor Ivanov, a priest for the Russian Orthodox Church in Ufa, detailed his excursion into the so-called “special military operation” zone on social media, sharing photos of a baptism that were likely intended as an uplifting PR effort but came off more as a vote of no-confidence.
While visiting Russian positions on the front line, he wrote, “A strong man approached. … Modestly, as if embarrassed, he looks at me and timidly asks: ‘Father, our fighter wanted to be baptized. Is that possible to do?’”
Ivanov said he sprung into action after realizing there may not be another chance to perform the baptism, asking the troops to search for a basin to fill with water.
But “not a single basin was found,” he said. Instead, the troops found him polyethylene bags—the black ones meant for the bodies of the dead. And then the “long-awaited” baptism was able to go ahead and the soldier’s eyes lit up in recognition of the “great event,” Ivanov wrote.
Sure, “the black polyethylene bags that were used as the baptismal vessels were intended for cargo 200,” he said, using a military code word for the bodies of troops killed in action. But “this baptism had its own symbolism.”
via VK
The bizarre baptism came as Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, ramped up his support for the war Tuesday by claiming Putin is the chosen one to fight against the “antichrist.”
In a speech before the 24th Congress of the World Russian People's Council, Putin’s holy man argued there were “a lot” of signs to indicate the “end of the world” was near—and the Russian leader is the only one who can stop it, a fact which makes other world leaders jealous.
“The example of Russia as a contemporary nation with developed science, technology and education, headed by a president who openly proclaims his faith forces many in the West to ask themselves, ‘why isn’t it like that with us?’” he said.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church is not the only one trying to rewrite the Kremlin’s narrative on the war. While Moscow spent the first several months after the full-scale invasion claiming Russian troops had been sent in to stop “Nazis” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine, that version largely failed to gain traction among the wider public as more and more reports emerged of Holocaust survivors being driven out of their homes or bombed by the same Russian troops supposedly fighting “Nazis.”
Putin’s repeated claim that the war was necessary to stop NATO expansion also flopped, as even some pro-Kremlin military bloggers noted that Moscow’s aggression had actually resulted in NATO strengthening and getting new members.
Now, according to a rather batshit op-ed penned by a Russian official this week, the Kremlin’s new stated goal appears to be the “de-Satanization” of Ukraine.
Alexei Pavlov, deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, claimed in an op-ed in the Arguments and Facts newspaper that as the war drags on, there is “more and more” evidence of cults in Ukraine.
Bizarrely, he went on to argue that Ukrainian leaders who took over after Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanokovych was ousted in 2014 had been tasked by the West with “recalibrating” the brains of Ukrainian citizens using mysterious “psychotechnologies.”
The op-ed, titled “What Is Cooking in the ‘Witch’s Cauldron.’ Neo-pagan cults Are Gaining Strength in Ukraine,” ended with the declaration: “I believe that with the continuation of the special military operation, it is becoming more and more urgent to carry out the de-Satanization of Ukraine.”
Germany: 10 years prison time for supporting Russia.
Democracy! Free speech!
Russian woman who danced Kalinka on May 9 in front of Ukrainian protesters in Berlin, disappeared after raids in her home
Yulia Prokhorova, who became famous after May 9, when she danced Kalinka with the Russian flag at a pro-Ukrainian rally in Berlin, stopped contacting her family and friends since October 14. On that day, police raided her home.
3 days later, the chat-admin of her Kremlin Valley channel wrote that Yulia was facing 10 years in prison, and then closed the comments. The Landshut Prosecutor's Office website posted a note that Prokhorova was accused of "supporting the aggressive Russian war."
Her relatives suggest that Yulia may have been in custody all this time. A similar story happened earlier with independent journalist Alina Lipp, who is being prosecuted on the same charges as Yulia: the girl faces 3 years in prison.
Democracy! Free speech!
Russian woman who danced Kalinka on May 9 in front of Ukrainian protesters in Berlin, disappeared after raids in her home
Yulia Prokhorova, who became famous after May 9, when she danced Kalinka with the Russian flag at a pro-Ukrainian rally in Berlin, stopped contacting her family and friends since October 14. On that day, police raided her home.
3 days later, the chat-admin of her Kremlin Valley channel wrote that Yulia was facing 10 years in prison, and then closed the comments. The Landshut Prosecutor's Office website posted a note that Prokhorova was accused of "supporting the aggressive Russian war."
Her relatives suggest that Yulia may have been in custody all this time. A similar story happened earlier with independent journalist Alina Lipp, who is being prosecuted on the same charges as Yulia: the girl faces 3 years in prison.
Here's another side of your non verified or linked story of above....
https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-wa...im-in-germany-demands-putin-bomb-dresden.html
.....Prokhorova has now left Germany, according to her own video, the result of purported deportation......
Let's see the "justice" Putin's henchmen are pushing in Russia. Just noting that there has been no capital punishment in Russia since 1996. This does not stop Medvedev from calling for people to be shot without trials. He does not like people burning those military mobilization offices. That's some fine fascist state Russia is running.
Medvedev calls for people to be shot ‘without trial or investigation’ for arson of military commissariats
https://english.nv.ua/nation/medved...n-for-arson-of-military-commiss-50281121.html
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for the return of the death penalty in the Russian Federation against the backdrop of attacks on Russian military infrastructure, according to his post on Telegram on Nov. 2.
Medvedev said both “yellow and blue (Ukrainian) saboteurs” and Russian citizens who set fire to military commissariats to disrupt the mobilization for the war against Ukraine should be summarily executed.
“It should be remembered that during the Great Patriotic War, no one cared about the saboteurs, who carried out subversive works in the rear following the orders of the fascist killers,” Medvedev wrote in a ranting post his Telegram channel.
“There was only one sentence for such scoundrels – execution without trial and investigation. Right at the crime scene. Because if you are a traitor who committed such a crime in wartime, then you have no age, no nationality, and not even the right to defend your life.”
Medvedev on Nov. 1 threatened Ukraine with the use of nuclear weapons for the liberation of the territories temporarily invaded by Russia, saying that the Western countries would be responsible for this.
So in summary the narrative posted by misterkel is completely fabricated. In reality the aggressor has been depicted as the victim in the nonsense being pushed by Russian vatniks. Sadly she was merely deported rather than being jailed for her crimes and deliberate intimidation of others.