RussiAnVetEraN wrote on Aug 21
st, 2024 at 3:53pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 21
st, 2024 at 8:45am:
Does this mean he is anticipating losing in Ukraine and inviting his supporters there to move to Russia?
No.
This means that Russia is now becoming a defender of Christian values against the new liberal values in the world.
I doubt he is fooling anyone. Putting aside the issue of starting a pointless war, there is also plenty of direct persecution of Christians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Soviet_Union
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on state interests.[1] Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union.
https://time.com/6969273/russias-war-against-evangelicals/
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is accompanied with a strategic effort to repress, control, and crush religious groups outside of the Kremlin controlled Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church. There are over thirty cases of religious clergy killed and kidnapped. 109 known cases of interrogations, forced expulsions, imprisonments, arrests. 600 houses of worship destroyed. And these are just the confirmed numbers, with the real ones in information blackout of the occupied territories will much likely be higher.
Justus Walker is a farmer who lives in the region of Altai, Russia. He has lived in Russia for over 20 years now. Born in US to evangelical missionary parents he looks after his farm but also ran his small church without any problems from authorities. So much for fake news from time.com
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