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originally posted by: nugget1
I can't say that I'm surprised. I don't believe Zelensky is in charge of running Ukraine anymore than I believe Biden is in charge of running the USA; they're just puppets.
He has a tattoo on his fingers: “There is no God.” The most piquant thing is that this inscription, tattoo, is made in Russian.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll
What does the man's religious sensibilities have to do with anything?
Stalin was an atheist who promoted atheism as part of his state ideology.
Guess it's okay for the likes of big Joe but not the leader of Ukraine?
originally posted by: nugget1
I can't say that I'm surprised. I don't believe Zelensky is in charge of running Ukraine anymore than I believe Biden is in charge of running the USA; they're just puppets.
originally posted by: RussianTroll
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll
What does the man's religious sensibilities have to do with anything?
Stalin was an atheist who promoted atheism as part of his state ideology.
Guess it's okay for the likes of big Joe but not the leader of Ukraine?
Stalin died a long time ago. By the way, he gave the western regions to Ukraine, just as Lenin had previously given Ukraine Little Russia, and the Russian tsars had given Novorossiya. Without these gifts, there will be nothing left from Ukraine. But they still tear down monuments to them)))
So someone has a tattoo and that reflects badly on Zelensky ?
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin, is embracing the rhetoric of the medieval crusades in urging support for Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine.
When Pope Urban ordered the first crusade to the Middle East in 1095, he told Christians to rise up and defend fellow believers, promising that their sins would be wiped away.
Nearly 10 centuries later, Kirill has called on believers to support pro-Russian "brothers" during Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine.
In a sermon in September, he said that dying in Ukraine "washes away all sins."
As humiliating military setbacks for Russia in Ukraine pile up, authorities in Moscow seem increasingly willing to depict the campaign in religious terms.
Keen to ensure public support, Putin declared during his midnight address on New Year's Eve that "moral, historical rightness is on our side."
He had initially said that the fellow Orthodox Christian nation needed to be "demilitarized" and "de-Nazified."
But more than 10 months into Moscow's offensive, Russian authorities, military commanders and propagandists aim to depict the conflict as a battle against the decadent West.