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The Comedy of Terrors: Western Progressive Thinking Against Nature and Man

Jan 14, 2017 11:10 am By Alexander Maistrovoy

Want to see Anti-Utopia? Look at the state of mind of the Western establishment.

After Trump’s win, a huge part of enlightened America was plunged into mourning. Students were crying, teachers canceled lectures to calm them down, “hotlines” started working to help desperate people.

In the USSR, such mass hysteria happened only after Stalin’s death, when people cried, thinking that it was the end of the world.

What brought American students to such despair? They are unlikely to be able to explain it, but it’s a very dangerous syndrome of mass insanity. It’s a symptom of the fact that the cultural totalitarianism of the West is far more effective than the Soviet political totalitarianism, and much more deadly and poisonous. It suppressed the will, consciousness and emotions of people — the Soviet party members didn’t achieve that.

Soviet totalitarianism not only failed to suppress basic instincts, but did not even try to do this.

A man seeing a girl subjected to sexual harassment would stand up for her if he could. A situation similar to the one that happened in Cologne last year was unthinkable in Moscow or St. Petersburg.

It was absolutely unthinkable that political officials in the USSR would justify rapists and accuse their victims on the grounds of immodesty. It was inconceivable that the Politburo members would welcome the mockery of their own children and protect rapists, as happens regularly in Western Europe.

I can’t imagine that a Soviet court would justify the rape of a child, as was the case in Austria; or care about the future of migrants who mocked and raped a child, as happened in Sweden. Authorities in Sweden decided not to deport Afghan migrants who committed a gang rape of a boy, because it was not safe in Afghanistan.

The Code of the Builder of Communism gave no sympathy for a rapist, whereas the Code of the Builder of postmodernism does.

Brezhnev would never say that if the situation in Cologne took place in St. Petersburg, “sexual harassment is not automatically binding to migration and immigration,” as was stated by the Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven.

The Soviet regime taught the world philosophy through the prism of the “class struggle.” This is true. But it never, under any circumstances, fully canceled the world philosophy, only because it was founded largely by European culture.

Soviet students didn’t ask to remove Plato and Descartes from their syllabus simply because they were white,  as students of London University did, when  they replaced them with philosophers from Africa and Asia. Who exactly? Louis Farrakhan, perhaps? Why not?

No one dared to reject the great culture because it was created by “Dead White European Males” (DWEM).

None of the Soviet Communists would have said what  George Ciccariello-Maher, an associate professor of political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said: “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.”

Nobody could think of replacing the picture of Shakespeare with the picture of Audre Lorde, an African American writer, civil rights activist and self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” as students at the University of Pennsylvania did.

Soviet party members used Western colonialism in their propaganda. But none of them could afford to use such notions as “White savagery” and “White ferocity,” as Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe did. Nobody declared that the history of the white race had been an endless appalling horror, as claimed  by Louis Sala-Molins.

Together with Arab countries, the KGB created the fictitious “Palestinian people” and manipulated it for political goals. Sure, it was a dirty, cynical and despicable game. But nobody in the USSR  really cared about the Palestinians, and immediately after the collapse of Soviet Union, former communist apparatchiks established rather normal relations with the Jewish state. For progressives including Obama, Kerry, and Bernie Sanders, the “Palestinian state” is “sacral dogma,” part of their pseudo-religious doctrine, and the Palestinians themselves are “Chosen People,” which has  rights only, with neither responsibility nor obligations. And they try to realize their vision with religious exaltation and fanatical obsession. Isn’t it a paradox that the Kremlin tried to postpone the anti-Israel resolution that orchestrated by Obama?

The Soviet regime was atheist and suppressed religion. Well! However, it suppressed all religions, without exception. It didn’t mock Judaism and Christianity while at same time glorifying one single religion — Islam. It didn’t ban the study of Voltaire, Holbach and David Hume because they had despised and rejected Islam as a primitive, patriarchal and aggressive religion. No one invited a crowd of strong, aggressive, sexually unsatisfied migrants to the country only because they were Muslims.

The Church suffered from persecution in the Soviet Union. But nevertheless, it remained the Church, not Sodom and Gomorrah. Priests and rabbis didn’t walk hand in hand, didn’t call for homosexual marriages, and didn’t elect a lesbian pastor or rabbi just because of her sexual preferences.

The  USSR was  hypocritical — it’s true. But it supported the family as a “cell of society,” and didn’t promote a homosexual family. None of the Soviet scientists offered to use the gender-neutral pronoun, “ze,” instead of “he” and “she,” as suggested by Oxford University. No one tried to get boys to do pipi sitting, like girls, in the name of gender equality, and no one thought to replace the term “boy” and “girl” by the word “it” ( «hen»), as happened in Sweden.

Ultimately, Soviet party members were far from the ideals of humanism, but at least they were normal. They didn’t go against Nature.

The Soviet regime dictated harsh rules and established censorship. However people remained normal human beings. They laughed at authorities, composed jokes about Brezhnev, made satirical films in spite of censorship, and learned to read newspapers between the lines. This primarily referred to intellectuals.

Cultural totalitarianism succeeded much more. It turned people into sterile zombies, brainwashed them, perverted the minds of men and women, and subdued the intellectuals who have responsibility for the future of their people.

I feel sorry for those young people who cried after Trump’s  win. But I am even more sorry for the nations whose progressive students will eventually become the elite of their societies. I am afraid we will return to the Middle Ages with a quasi-religious cult, where a “progressive” Inquisition will rule. Leonid Brezhnev, as compared to this regime of enthusiastic and fanatical priests of our future, will look like Marcus Aurelius.

Alexander Maistrovoy is the Author “Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger”), published recently by Xlibris, Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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  1. SoCalMike says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 11:34 am

    Easily the most insightful and dead on accurate comparison of contemporary 21st century American culture to 20th century Soviet culture I’ve ever read.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      Concur.

    • t. says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 12:50 pm

      Agreed, SoCalMike, one of the best articles I read recently!

      Thanks Alexander Maistrovoy, for this insightful article.

  2. vladkoval says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 11:50 am

    What a claptrap…Why is it necessary to draw examples from USSR?
    “The USSR was hypocritical — it’s true. But it supported the family as a “cell of society,” and didn’t promote a homosexual family.”
    https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Уголовное_преследование_мужеложства_в_РСФСР (Criminal prosecution of sodomy in the RSFSR (USSR)
    Article 121. Sodomy – Sexual intercourse of a man with a man (sodomy) is punishable by imprisonment for up to five years. Sodomy, committed with the use of physical violence, threats, or against a minor, or by using the dependent position of the victim, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding eight years.
    I wonder, does anyone want to impose this law in USA?

    • LB says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 2:45 pm

      Because when pointed out that the West does more to promote islam over their own culture, thus leading to terrorist attacks by “migrants” and the ever shrinking limited freedoms of the natives (mostly whites), the Western apologists would often refer to USSR and its brainwashing, communist political totalitarianism, saying that today’s West is nowhere near as oppressed as that.

      The brilliant Alexander Maistrovoy takes it apart beautifully here. While it is certainly true that people had somewhat limited freedom concerning religion, sexuality, etc, the social culture of USSR was first and foremost based upon the family values, meaning that family (especially the female members) would take priority over everything else. And right after family, Communism was second on the list.

      Compare that to the USA and the West of today, where ISLAM and “MIGRANTS” take priority over everything, including family and national identity, due to PC/MC culture which has infected every aspect of our lives. In Western Europe, petty crimes, assaults and rapes by muslims are becoming the norm in an average European’s life. Why is that the case?

      Sure there are groups that are speaking out , like AfD, PKK, PEGIDA, etc, but why is there even a need to “speak out” against such things? If one group is committing absurdly abnormal numbers of crimes in proportion to its percentage, isn’t it perfectly normal to condemn them as a whole? The answer is no, because we wouldn’t want to wrong the few that haven’t committed any crimes (yet), now would we? This is the mainstream (leftist) state of mind of the Western society — the “White Male” is at fault for everything bad that is happening today, and we should protect the “oppressed minority”, who had been wronged by “white tyranny”, even if they end up killing us one day.

      • vladkoval says

        Jan 14, 2017 at 3:32 pm

        If I tell you that muslims in current Moscow constitute the majority – would you believe me?

        • LB says

          Jan 14, 2017 at 4:39 pm

          No. But even if that’s the case, it is because the current Russia is different from USSR of the past. But even so, it has retained some of its previous character enough to keep the PC culture of the West at a minimum. The fact that there’s no muslim crime and rape epidemic in Russia is the proof of that — even more so if your claim is correct.

        • no_one says

          Jan 14, 2017 at 4:49 pm

          No. You have to prove it. How about Siberia?

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 14, 2017 at 6:02 pm

          vladkoval, the Muslim population of Moscow does not present a majority–but it *is* shockingly high–as many as 2.5 million Muslims, out of a population of 11.9 million.

          Troubling, also, is Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill twitting the West for being nervous over inviting in hordes of Muslims, and Putin opening a mega-Mosque right in the heart of Moscow.

          “West should learn from Russia to accept Muslim refugees – Patriarch Kirill”

          http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=12354

          “Putin opens Moscow’s largest mosque”

          http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-mosque-idUSKCN0RN1UD20150923

          I’m afraid Russia’s appeasement of Muslims is hardly inconsiderable.

  3. Richard Andrade says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    One I watched a doc called Disinformation. If that’s true or not, I don’t know (it seems to make a lot of sense). If it (or most of it) is true, we can understand the reason why the USSR didn’t continue to go for the utopia they defended, since they had already tried it and it didn’t work well for themselves, but they knew that they would likely to be in a leading position if they made the world go that way, as they would be the only rational nation, they would be protecting themselvels and controlling the world at the same time with the use of deception. Since it is a closed nation, it’s hard to get hard evidence they are working on disinformation. I think that the Chinese and Muslims are Russia’s minions. Remember that Protocol of the Elders of Zion? That may surely have helped Muslims focus their anger away from Russians and towards which Russian’s would love to have a final word in world’s matters: America.

  4. no_one says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    USSR has one advantage. Russia converted to Christianity over 1000 years ago. Moral values of the Gospel are part of what some call “Russian soul”. I have met Russians that follow the morals of the Gospel and they tell me they are atheist, but what they do is how Russians are. Russians that I know are men that are not girly at all. They will defend any woman if she is in a danger. I know communist banned church, but elderly grandmas kept going to church anyway. They prayed for everyone. This is how the church survived.

  5. scherado says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    // No one tried to get boys to do pipi sitting, like girls, in the name of gender equality,//

    This bit gave me the heebie-jeebies, even though I haven’t a clue what it means. Wait, does he mean “pee-pee”? HA!

    //I feel sorry for those young people who cried after Trump’s win.//

    Uhg, my adult Sister with four kids cried. Oy.

    None of this is funny, though I have to think it better than crying inconsolably. Perhaps, not.

    • maghan says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 4:24 pm

      Muslim males are required to squat the way that vulgar bandit Muhammad did.

  6. Angemon says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    Early Soviet communist leaders could pass class struggle as actual class struggle, considering that when the Russian Revolution took place the Russian Empire was incredibly backwards. But in a more civilized nation where people with marketable skills and the desire to work hard could make a comfortable living? Nope – most people didn’t care about Communism. The way to infiltrate such a society was through culture. Workers and bourgeoisy? “Haves” and “have nots”? Those who “control the means of production and means of coercion” and those who were “oppressed and exploited”? All shifted from economics to culture. Christian White Cis-Gendered Men? Oppressors, who hold the means of production and means of coercion. Everyone else? A poor, oppressed victim, in one way or another. What happens in a setting that has a relatively high degree of equality? You invent more inequalities. You make even bigger mountains out of even smaller molehills. You create more “victimized”, “oppressed” groups and shriek with an increasingly higher-pitch and higher-volume voice. But the bubble is going to burst sooner or later.

    • Wellington says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 4:58 pm

      Subtle (and correct) thinking, Angemon.

    • vladkoval says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 12:52 am

      “when the Russian Revolution took place the Russian Empire was incredibly backwards”
      I would add: Russian Empire was like India with its caste system. By law, depending on your origin, you can not enter a University (which were few anyway). And the last but not least – Rus Revolution was not so much the strive to social justice but result of losing WW1. Actually, Kaiser Germany did a favour to Russia: without defeating her, they would never have Revolution and some technical progress. But it’s already other story.

      • Mirren10 says

        Jan 15, 2017 at 8:51 am

        Russia ceased to be an autocracy in 1905, when Nicholas was forced to grant the Duma.

        • vladkoval says

          Jan 15, 2017 at 9:42 am

          No, the Duma was a formal useless body, not taking any decision, and dissolved many times. There is a joke: the word “duma” derives from the verb “dumat” (to think), but not to rule.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 15, 2017 at 3:01 pm

          True, Mirren–Russia had a brief window where she might have become something resembling a free nation–this was cut short when Stalin made his move, and threw Russia and eventually all of Eastern Europe into a tyranny that lasted over seventy years, and slaughtered well over fifty million.

  7. girlgirl says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 4:59 pm

    “. But it supported the family as a “cell of society,” and didn’t promote a homosexual family. None of the Soviet scientists offered to use the gender-neutral pronoun, “ze,” instead of “he” and “she,” as suggested by Oxford University. No one tried to get boys to do pipi sitting, like girls, in the name of gender equality, and no one thought to replace the term “boy” and “girl” by the word “it” ( «hen»), as happened in Sweden.”

    And this is why I hate SJWs.
    Legitimate causes like allowing a healthy homosexual/lesbian couple to adopt a child is now considered to be at the same level of tumbrl-hysteria.
    Studies done on children adopted by a same sex couple didn’t show that these kids are any different in behaviour than children adopted by a heterosexual couple. Meanwhile lack of parental affect and guidance has been proved to be severely demaging to the child.
    It’s not like the world is filled with heterosexual couples desiring to help these children, most of heterosexual couples are too much selfish to even care about these neglected children and the environment impact a new life would have.

    • don vito says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      ugh

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 6:56 pm

      I’m fine with gay adoption, as well.

      • Watchman says

        Jan 17, 2017 at 9:43 am

        Sodomah and Gomorrah were destroyed by flaming sulfur. That is what I think about that filth.
        Leviticus 18:22.
        GOD WILL JUDGE you!
        Repent or Perish!

        http://injesuschrististand.blogspot.fi/2012/09/a-shocking-dream-where-i-was-shown.html

        You have been warned now!

        Shalom!

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 5:42 pm

    The Comedy of Terrors: Western Progressive Thinking Against Nature and Man
    …………………………

    Actually, the Soviet Union did a great deal to enable Jihad around the world–in addition to its own horrific policies.

    But there is no doubt that Western “Progressives” are suicidal in their views and policies, and are doing a great deal to harm the civilized West.

    • Wellington says

      Jan 14, 2017 at 7:41 pm

      Agreed, gravenimage. The blame for so much which is malevolent can be fairly and accurately spread around quite extensively. The key difference in this ongoing tragedy, which is part and parcel of the human condition and which constitutes a major part of man’s overall history (and also a major reason why religions were created, but I digress), is that the West, in toto, which produced easily so the greatest civilization of all time, has been capable of acknowledging this truth (and no other civilization or culture has). You in microcosm are demonstrative of, what I strongly believe, is a correct hypothesis here. Yes indeed, the West is best, as Ibn Warraq, no Westerner, has astutely and brilliantly asserted,

      But of course this truth will be lost on many. After all, so much is—–and thus indicative of how fragile and precious truth is. Freedom too, which is inextricably wrapped up with truth——and one knows this or should know it. You do. I do. Many others who post here at JW also do. But so many don’t and herein lies an enormous problem, perhaps the greatest problem of all.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 15, 2017 at 4:13 pm

        Always good to read your erudite comments, Wellington. Yes–with all respect to Jihad Watch contributor Alexander Maistrovoy, I believe there is a great tendency to lay the enabling of Islam entirely at the feet of the West, and to posit that all sorts of tyranny–the old Soviet Union, Mao’s China, even Nazi Germany–are the only bulwarks against Islamization.

        But this is not the case–tyrannies many times actively enable and, yes, even appease tyranny such as Islam.

        We see this in Communist China, where Muslims were largely exempted from the “One Child Policy”, and where Many Muslims have been allowed to carry knives in Western China–despite their horrific history of violence there.

        We see it in semi-free Russia, where Putin has allowed the imposition of Shari’ah law in Chechnya, where he opens Mosques in Moscow, and where he enables a nuclear Iran.

        Tyrannies are not necessarily tougher on other violent tyrannies–rather, they are much more apt to oppress their own peaceful citizenry.

        I hate to see such appeasement and emboldening of Islam *anywhere*.

        As I have said before, what we need to do is to proudly assert and robustly defend our own civilized societies.

        Quite contrary to what some appear to believe, this is *not* impossible–it was, in fact, very much the norm before our recent unearned crisis of confidence and fashion for false moral equivalence.

        Despite its inconsistencies, we *have* created the the greatest civilization in the world–the greatest civilization in the history of the world, in fact.

        We have every right to defend our civilized societies against the depredations of Islam.

        • Alex Maistrovoy says

          Jan 17, 2017 at 11:43 am

          Dear gravenimage
          I’m not sure you understand my message. I’m don’t try to justify the USSR and do see the totalitarian regime as bulwark against aggressive Islam.
          I said that progressives are appeared much more successful in brainwashing than communists and it’s tragedy.
          I myself would like to return to the Victorian era, to 10th century

        • Alex Maistrovoy says

          Jan 17, 2017 at 11:45 am

          To 19th of course

  9. My Shari'a Moor says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 9:39 pm

    Communism is DEAD, Fred!
    GLAD TRUMP WON!
    Both he & we KNOW what to do:
    “[a] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.” – 3rd US Pres. Thomas Jefferson, 1803.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 8:56 am

      Brilliant quote from Thomas Jefferson, thanks for posting it. I’ve sent it to Sharia May, and Nigel Farage.

  10. My Shari'a Moor says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    Mr. Maistrovoy…You’ve WELL described the differences between the sterile & now-DEAD USSR & the now-FAILING Eurabia today!
    May St. Alexandr I. Solzhenitzyn BLESS you forever!
    ‘Lan Astaslem’ – (Arab. – “I will NEVER submit to Islam!)

  11. vladkoval says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 12:23 am

    I am really sorry to touch someones’ warm feelings towards Russia, but it’s better to know the bitter truth than sweet lies.
    Guys, what “family values in Russia” are you talking about?
    Gorbachov in 1985 declared war on… alcohol, after getting statistical report stating that USSR is number 1 in the world in terms of consuming alcohol. Gorbachov lost the war…
    Russia Putinesqua (as well as Yeltsinesqa) is one big shithole of the world. Only two cities (Moscow and SPB) have the shadow of decent lifestandards, the rest of Russia – is nothing but a 3rd world countries reality – poverty, poverty, and again – poverty. And as you know, poverty has many sisters and brothers: high rate of prostitution, alcoholism, drug-addiction, rapes, high rate of murders out of hooliganic motives (mostly drunk), BTW, Russia is 89 millions, not 150 millions of population, as you uised to hear, – that’s the result of depopulation and emigration, and of course – poverty and corruption of Kremlin.
    But Russia opposes homosexual agenda!
    Come on, grow up. Not all homosexuals dream about gay-prides. Most of them prefer to stay in the shadow. You say a Russian court would never justify a child rapist? Well, it depends on how much he can bribe the judge in Russia. Let alone that thousands child rape cases remain unreported. Just fucking unreported. Because its a shame to be a victim of this sodomy rape (if reported in future the kid will be labeled as “gay, moffy” etc). Parents know that and prefer to keep silence. That’s reality of Russia, guys.
    Russia is full of abandoned children. But if one wants to adopt a kid – he has to pass through the hell of buerocratic procedures, but not because the athority wants to make sure the kid will be ok, but to get a bribe. What? Yes. It took me many years to realize why they want bribes for that. But it’s easy – if someone wants to adopt a child in Russia – that means he has medical problems with birthing, and from his parental instinct advantage is taken. No money for the bribe? – GFY.
    But Russia is opposing Islam!
    Let me tell you a secret. No need mention Chechnya. It is too small to mention. In general, if you meet a Russian who curses “damned muslims” do not be hurry to view him as your “brother in arms”. Because in his hate-list put not only muslims, but as well Georgians, Armenians and other “churkas” (derogatory term for Caucasion ethnicities no matter of religion). Moreover, if you talk to him more, you will be surprised finding out that in fact he shares many values of Islam you oppose on your anti-Islam websites – mysoginy, minor marriages, disempowerment of woman, and others. Everithing what leads to decadence of any country, like decadent Russia the failed-state.
    Make no mistake – Russia is the Kingdom of Devil.
    If Trump really pacts with Kremlin – shame on him.

    • vladkoval says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 12:37 pm

      “Moreover, if you talk to him more, you will be surprised finding out that in fact he shares many values of Islam you oppose on your anti-Islam websites – mysoginy, minor marriages, disempowerment of woman, and others”
      I forgot to add one very important component of Russian muslim-like mentality – “victim of rape is the giulty”.
      Yes, Russia is one big Dogville. (if you saw that movie with Nicole Kidman).

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 4:38 pm

      All sadly true, vladkoval.

      I would also mention that while some consider Russia to be a bastion of Christian values, that only around half of Russians are Christian–a figure much lower than the US, or even Europe–something that should not surprise, given that Christianity was actively suppressed there for so long.

      Also mistaken is the idea that Russia does not allow abortion, unlike the decadent West–this is not true. During the Soviet Union, birth control was hard to come by, and abortions–horribly–became the de facto method of birth control. Even today, rates of abortion there are over three times that of the United States, and are in fact the highest in the world.

      Also per family values, the divorce rate in Russia is also the highest in the world, outstripping rates in America and Europe.

      There is a lot that I do admire about Russian culture, but these misperceptions–and in some cases, outright propaganda–don’t help any of us. I still have hopes for Russia, as I did after the fall of the Soviet Union, and there is no doubt that things are generally better in Russia than they were during that dark time–but improvement seems to have deliberately stalled out under Putin.

    • Alex Maistrovoy says

      Jan 17, 2017 at 11:30 am

      Dear vladkoval
      You vainly try to prove that USSR was evil. Of corse it was was evil in any case and I hated it.
      I don’t try to prove that it was fine. I say something absolutely else: Cultural totalitarianism is more successful than soviet one. It destroys soils of people and first of all intellegenzia.
      I don’ justify USSR and have no nostalgia about it. But I sorry about western democracy, that’s all.

  12. vladkoval says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 12:55 am

    Islam in USSR

  13. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 2:39 am

    Totalitarianism. West vs East. Like India, the US is Totalitarian too. Human beings are totalitarian animals.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 4:43 pm

      Oh, what claptrap. The United States has its problems, but the idea that it is or ever has been totalitarian is bosh. India is more troubled, but is not totalitarian, either.

  14. Chris Malan says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 4:55 am

    It’s high time the liberals accept that this time, they’ve lost and suck it up instead of whining all the time. It is really bad style. Conservatives don’t whine and protest when a liberal wins.

  15. Fr Agathon says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 6:13 am

    Thank you for a truthful, thought provoking, and inspired article.The title is perfect.

  16. vladkoval says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 7:36 am

    https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/01/11/russian-duma-approves-bill-on-decriminalization-of-domestic-violence-in-first-reading
    Russian Duma approves bill on decriminalization of domestic violence in first reading

    The State Duma approved a bill on the decriminalization of domestic violence in its first reading on Wednesday with 368 pro-votes, 1 vote against, and 1 abstention. The bill – which will now be prepared for its second reading – would exclude domestic violence from Russia’s Criminal Code, thereby no longer making it a felony.

    The bill proposes making domestic violence – specifically defined as the beating of a relative – an civil offense, with criminal liability applicable in only those cases when the offense is committed two or more times in the same year.

    It will still be considered a criminal offense if domestic violence is perpetrated as an act of hooliganism or is motivated by hatred or enmity. In such cases, perpetrators could be sentenced to compulsory work or to up to two years in prison.

    “Domestic violence has … breached the principle of equality of citizens [in the family],” said Yelena Mizulina, one of the bill’s authors.
    **********************
    Well, where did I see that before??
    I recall – Quran and Sharia – “beat your wife”
    Good move, Russia, good move

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 4:51 pm

      Well, *this* is disturbing in general, and will specifically enable Muslim wife beating and “Honor Killing”. *Ugh*. Thanks for the information, vladkoval.

  17. Tom Davis says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 9:09 am

    I disagree. While the description of Westerners is on the mark, this essay is seriously wrong with regard to the Soviet Union:

    t’s a symptom of the fact that the cultural totalitarianism of the West is far more effective than the Soviet political totalitarianism, and much more deadly and poisonous. It suppressed the will, consciousness and emotions of people — the Soviet party members didn’t achieve that.

    Yes it did. Here is an excerpt from the 1975 trial of Nijole Sadunaite: “…These and hundreds of other facts witness that the atheist purpose – to make everyone their spiritual slave – justifies any means: lies, slander, and terror. And you rejoice in your triumph? What remains after your triumphant victory? Moral ruin, millions of unborn fetuses, defiled moral values, weak debased people overcome by fear and with no passion for life? All of that is the fruit of your labors…”

    Soviet totalitarianism not only failed to suppress basic instincts…

    Yes it did Why are Russian birth rates still so low?

    It was absolutely unthinkable that political officials in the USSR would justify rapists…

    But they did, just not publicly. Crime was in their eyes caused by the inequities of capitalism, and so rapists were exalted above counter-revolutionaries. From Bronislava Klimavichute in The Martyrs of Magadan</i: "Other guards took us. But the criminals had just come out.“Oh, we’ll have work to do tonight!” they threatened. We were so frightened; we huddled together in a corner of the tent. Yes, we had been put in tents. These tents somehow stood apart. Even the supervisors did not go there at night. They were scared of these mongrels, who went around dressed so flashily. We were amazed.“Good God, just where are these people from? Who are they? And how do they have such good connections?” It turns out they were just “common criminals” – thieves, rapists, and murderers."

    The USSR might have won the Cold War if instead of KGB methods they had used Hollywood's. But let's remember things cleraly, OK?

    • Tom Davis says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 9:10 am

      clearly, OK?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm

      Good post, Tom.

  18. Mirren10 says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 9:13 am

    Thank you for your very informative posts, vladkoval.

    They are an interesting corrective to Mr. Maistrovoy’s article, which I think vastly overstates his case, in comparing the idiocies of the West to the horrors of Soviet Russia.

    The West is indeed idiotic, and stupidly suicidal in many respects, but it has never murdered 30 million kulaks, or instituted gulags.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 4:57 pm

      +1

  19. vcragain says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 10:20 am

    All of you furiously justifying your sicko’s statements, because he ran as a ‘Republican’ and managed to convince just enough people to get him in (<90000 in totaL i think) – you know who you are AND you know perfectly well he is a moron, bent only on his own wealth & fame and NOTHING ELSE ! If another REAL Republican had won, you would not have seen this level of fear & sorrow at the situation – I felt fearful, I was reduced to tears, – NOT because Trump was a decent Republican & won, but because you are all so determined to to take the White House you would accept ANYBODY that said he was a Republican – a complete lack of principles showing here !!! NO amount of justification can hide what that man actually IS, what he STANDS FOR & WHAT HE MAY DO. Good luck with your new Mussolini & your disgraceful lack of honesty & standing as Republicans ! I do not like Pence or his ridiculous religious fascism, but when Trump collapses of his own criminality, we are stuck with Pence, who is basically a Christian version of the Jihadis you all hate so much !!!. Yes – Republicans you have really screwed the world up now – you do not even have any integrity towards your own supposed 'values' – those we could discuss – your mop-haired 'man' is another story altogether !

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 5:25 pm

      vcragain wrote:

      …NO amount of justification can hide what that man actually IS, what he STANDS FOR & WHAT HE MAY DO.
      …………………………….

      I am hardly an unalloyed supporter of Trump–he is very inconsistent, and his grasp of the threat of Islam is spotty–but why would you be “reduced to tears” by his saying he would act to keep Jihad terrorists out of the United States?

      More:

      Good luck with your new Mussolini & your disgraceful lack of honesty & standing as Republicans ! I do not like Pence or his ridiculous religious fascism, but when Trump collapses of his own criminality, we are stuck with Pence, who is basically a Christian version of the Jihadis you all hate so much !!!.
      …………………………….

      When has Trump ever indicated that he is fascist?

      I hardly agree with Pence on all matters, either, but where did you get the idea that he is a “Jihadist”? Has he vowed to stone “unclean” women to death and throw gay people off tall buildings? Will he be slaughtering those who shirk their church attendance? I must have missed all of this…

      More:

      Yes – Republicans you have really screwed the world up now – you do not even have any integrity towards your own supposed ‘values’ – those we could discuss – your mop-haired ‘man’ is another story altogether !
      …………………………….

      So–Jihad is not a problem, but Republicans–who have not even taken power yet, mind you–have “really screwed the world up”?

      I have no doubt that there will be embarrassments and mistakes under the Trump administration, but just having someone in the White House who is not actively enabling Islam is bound to be an improvement in toto.

  20. vladkoval says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 1:17 pm

    Russian propaganda makes you eat shit on breakfast, dinner and supper. They instill you the so-called
    “Anti-Russia Guilt” – “Look, we did a bad thing, we were waging the Cold War, we helped Afghanistan against the Soviets, USSR collapsed and Russia had the horrors of 90s, the savings of people turned to dust within a day. And now we understand that Communism was not that bad. We are guilty, we are guilty, we are guilty”.
    Make no mistake. They just take advantage of your ignorance in Soviet issues.
    They will never tell you about the millions of roubles and dollars Communist Party members possesed.
    Where did they get the money?
    Trading with capitalists! The money went to private pockets instead of gov treasure.
    Soviet com-party members started viewing the Communism as burden decades before they themselves ended the USSR.
    When visiting the West they were thinking: I can buy last model of Mercedes too, but why I have to hide my posession?
    You work at the oficially public plant, and you have no clue that unoficially it’s a private plant, belonging to some com-party member. There were a lot of scandals revealing this stuff during Perestroika. And it was just a peak of the iceberg. You just know only few info translated in English.
    And these people are still at the power in Russia, and they want you to feel guilty for their own faults and crimes.
    Do not be stupid!

  21. patriotliz says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    PROGRESSIVE GLOBALISTS are more sinister and suicidal then simply being a PROGRESSIVE MARXIST. Globalists seek a cultural totalitarianism of equality of all races, nations, genders, religions. Islam is being used by the atheists to destroy Western Judeo-Christian civilization…but, as the saying goes, the Progressive infidels will eventually be eaten by the crocodile….

  22. Moshe Akiva says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    As one who grew up in a commie country I can attest to this article. The commie leaders were sort of idiots there, too, but were far more down to Earth than their American or Canadian comrades today.

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