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On The Present Trouble With Russia
Russia has become a thorn in the side of the world. Having experienced too many thorns in my own side since, oh, 2016, I do not make that statement lightly.
I have long believed that Russia did not improve---after the fall of the Bolshevik Party, Lenin's multiplicity of statues, and the Workers' Paradise in its livery of dismal krupskaya gray---because it had failed to atone for, or openly repent of, the murder of the Czar and Czarina, their four daughters, their prepubescent son (and his dog---what threat to Lenin was the dog?), and their few remaining servants; along with all the other Romanov relatives that Lenin's thugs could round up---some of whom were tossed, alive, into a pit, into which hand grenades were then thrown. Lenin, himself, helped a crowd of rioters pull down an Orthodox, three-barred cross that had been erected in memory of the Czar's uncle (I believe it was) by his wife (who, after becoming a Nun within the Orthodox Church, then an abbess, was thrown into that pit I mentioned before). Many Orthodoc Churches were desecrated---one was used as a public toilet, with urinals and commodes installed in the sanctuary. Has Russia made reparations to the Orthodox Church for the loss of its facilities to the vengeful mania of Vladimir Lenin, the failed lawyer?
But, I also suggest, the Nato Allies, too, need to atone for and repent of these murders, martyrdoms, and desectrations---especially the murder and martyrdom of the royal family: two parents, four daughters, a son, their servants, and that poor dog. Great Britain has just celebrated the platinum jubilee of the queen (and, along with her, we were afforded glimpses of all the Merry Wives of Windsor who have remained in their marriages): this queen's grandfather, George V, allowed his cabinet ministers to refuse to receive the Romanov's, and though supposedly it was a cabinet decision, George V could have pressured his ministers, or directed them to be given entrance to one of the nations then held by the British empire; but no, he simply acquiesced to his own fears and the fears of the cabinet.
France, also, refused them entrance. But what can you expect from a nation that, during Robespierre's reign of terror, sent adolescent girls to the guillotine because they, simply, bore the wrong surname? I cannot believe that the France that produced the great Poets, Paul Claudel and St John Perse, denied the Romanovs asylum?
And what about the good old USA? Did you know that Trotsky toured the United States, some years before the Revolution, speaking before churches and sunday schools who contributed to the Bolshevik Party's coffers under the pretense of helping the poor, and economically disadvantaged? And, in 1921, when the Party's catastrophic misunderstanding of agricultural administration led to a huge famine, the USA commissioned a mining engineer by the name of Herbert Hoover to provide mass shipments of grain to the Bolshevik government, which prevented it from be deposed by an insurrection of its angry, starving people. Their hunger was relieved, and they were fed; and, later, Joe Stalin slaughtered thousands of them---especially those who were Orthodox Christians---as subversive "enemies of the People"; Joe Stalin, the homicical sociopath personally groomed by Lawyer Lenin to continue the core principles of Leninism: government by terror, trial by torture, disposal by firing squad.
The more prominent, or dominant, Nato allies still bear the guilt for the murders of the Romanov's. Until this is absolved, and until Russia restores by reparation what it seized from the Orthodox Church, and more fully repents, spiritually, of the murders---the political and military debacles such as we are seeing in Ukraine will simply continue.
