John the Russian wrote:CGW Wrote:
Perhaps it is a part of the Russian culture, from which ROAC derives, to do these things.PART OF THE RUSSIAN CULTURE TO BURN DOWN ITS CHURCHES???
You obviously have no clue about russian culture. Russians ( not soviets) have always loved the church. Since the time of St Vladimir and the beginning of orthodoxy in Russia nothing was valued more by a Russian than the church. The church came first in life, before ANYTHING else. Society was organized around the church calander. Holidays in Russia were celebrated by all according to the church calander.
Thaose that are burning down churches cannot be considered Russians.
I agree. The Communists were not Russians. They wanted to eliminate ethinic identity in the State. All were made common by the October Revolution. Nationalism, ethnic identity, and religion were against the notion of a world wide communist revolution where there would be no borders all joined by Communism.
The Facsist invasion of 1941 showed that the Party and Communism were not good rallying points for the populace. Nationalism (For Motherland Russia!) and the Church were made instruments of the State to rally the people. These did rally them in fact. I was reading recently that prior to the great battle of Kursk in July 1943, the morale of the Red Army waiting for the German attack was low. The Church was allowed to bring an icon of the Theotokos from Kursk to the troops in the trenches. The presentation and ceremony had a great affect on the troops, not like the endless chanting of the glories of Communism.