#2022_InvasionOfUkraine #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCofE

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Context #AdvocacyUSRANDCorporationRyanBauer "In the leadup to the war in Ukraine, the Russian strategy of courting Western support through religious means appeared to be paying off. Tucker Carlson asked live on air why Americans should hate Russia; Steve Bannon, on his show, argued we should be praising Putin for his anti-LGBTQ policies and for being 'anti-woke.' Even after the onset of war, religious figures such as American leaders of Russian Orthodox Cathedrals in the United States have repeated Russian talking points that assign blame to both Ukraine and the United States for the war. And yet, within Russia and its Church, cracks in support have been forming since the initial invasion. Shortly after the war broke out, for example, more than 150 Russian Orthodox clerics issued an open letter calling for the war's immediate end, stating that Ukrainians should be free to make their own choices. Though this is but a small portion of Russia's thousands of Orthodox clerics, it represented an uncharacteristic break in Church messaging and flew in the face of the narratives coming from the Kremlin and Church leadership" (16 November 2022). ^[blog] #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #IdentityLGBTQIA #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomEasternOrthodoxy #PhenomnTalkingPointsRussian #ToponymRussiaKremlin

Communiqué de Presse: Proposer de débaptiser le collège Soljenitsyne, c'est faire preuve d'une ignorance particulièrement désolante quand elle émane de milieux enseignants, heureusement minoritaires. Prix Nobel de la Paix, Soljenitsyne fut l'un des grands combattants de la liberté du XXème siècle, et il a payé de dix ans de goulag son opposition à la tyrannie. Au moment du démantèlement de l'Union Soviétique, il avait même mis en garde la Russie, l'appelant 'à ne pas chercher à s'étendre large, mais à conserver clair son esprit national dans le territoire qui lui restera.'. Soit l'exact inverse de ce que fait Poutine en Ukraine. Certains feraient mieux de relire Soljenitsyne plutôt que de réécrire l'histoire. Car n'en déplaise aux esprits étroits, on peut être, comme l'était Alexandre Soljenitsyne, patriote sans être nationaliste, orthodoxe sans être intégriste, russe sans être impérialiste. La Vendée, qui a aussi souffert de la Terreur révolutionnaire, peut être fière d'avoir été saluée par Soljenitsyne comme une terre de résistance à l'oppression. C'était en 1993, et ce fut la seule halte en France qu'il fit sur le chemin de retour de son exil aux États Unis. C'est en souvenir de cette visite historique et de ce combat commun pour la liberté qu'il est juste, et utile, que l'un des collèges vendéens porte le nom d'Alexandre Soljenitsyne. [Press Release: Proposing to rename Solzhenitsyn College is a display of particularly distressing ignorance when it comes from teaching circles, fortunately a minority. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Solzhenitsyn was one of the great freedom fighters of the 20th century, and he paid for his opposition to tyranny with ten years in the gulag. At the time of the dismantling of the Soviet Union, he even warned Russia, calling on it 'not to seek to expand widely, but to maintain its clear national spirit in the territory that remains to it.' This is the exact opposite of what Putin is doing in Ukraine. Some would do better to reread Solzhenitsyn rather than rewrite history. Because, with all due respect to narrow-minded people, one can be, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a patriot without being a nationalist, Orthodox without being a fundamentalist, Russian without being an imperialist. Vendée, which also suffered from the Revolutionary Terror, can be proud to have been hailed by Solzhenitsyn as a land of resistance to oppression. This was in 1993, and it was the only stop in France he made on his way back from his exile in the United States. It is in memory of this historic visit and this shared struggle for freedom that it is fitting, and fitting, that one of the Vendée's middle schools bears the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.] #IRLAuthorAleksandrSolzhenitsyn ^[Wikipedia] #PowerControlUnfreeLabourGULAG #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #ToponymEuropeUkraine #2022_InvasionOfUkraine #PoliticsPatriotism #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomEasternOrthodoxy #NarrativeWarGuerreDeVendee ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPFRLesRepublicainsLRBrunoRetailleau ^[Wikipedia]