RUSSIA'S RULING REIN......re invented,and aimed at America

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To carry out this transformation, the Kremlin is:

Forging an ultraconservative, puritanical society mobilized against liberal freedoms and especially hostile to gay and transgender people, in which family policy and social welfare spending boost traditional Orthodox values.
Reshaping education at all levels to indoctrinate a new generation of turbo-patriot youth, with textbooks rewritten to reflect Kremlin propaganda, patriotic curriculums set by the state and, from September, compulsory military lessons taught by soldiers called “Basics of Security and Protection of the Motherland,” which will include training on handling Kalashnikov assault rifles, grenades and drones.
Sterilizing cultural life with blacklists of liberal or antiwar performers, directors, writers and artists, and with new nationalistic mandates for museums and filmmakers.
Mobilizing zealous pro-war activism under the brutal Z symbol, which was initially painted on the side of Russian tanks invading Ukraine but has since spread to government buildings, posters, schools and orchestrated demonstrations.
Rolling back women’s rights with a torrent of propaganda about the need to give birth — young and often — and by curbing ease of access to abortions, and charging feminist activists and liberal female journalists with terrorism, extremism, discrediting the military and other offenses.
Rewriting history to celebrate Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who sent millions to the gulag, through at least 95 of the 110 monuments in Russia erected during Putin’s time as leader. Meanwhile, Memorial, a human rights group that exposed Stalin’s crimes and shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, was shut down and its pacificist co-chairman Oleg Orlov, 71, jailed.
Accusing scientists of treason; equating criticism of the war or of Putin with terrorism or extremism; and building a new, militarized elite of “warriors and workers” willing to take up arms, redraw international boundaries and violate global norms on orders of Russia’s strongman ruler.

“They’re trying to develop this scientific Putinism as a basis of propaganda, as a basis of ideology, as a basis of historical education,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “They need an obedient new generation — indoctrinated robots in an ideological sense — supporting Putin, supporting his ideas, supporting this militarization of consciousness.”

Kolesnikov, speaking in an interview in Moscow, added: “They need cannon fodder for the future.”

Just before ordering what he believed would be a short, shock war on Ukraine, Putin published a little-noticed decree billed as vital to Russia’s national security. It called for urgent measures to protect “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” and named the United States as a direct threat.
pull quote: "They need cannon fodder for the future"

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They need cannon fodder

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Andrei Kolesnikov

Senior fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

“Threats to traditional values come from extremist and terrorist organizations, some news media and communication platforms, the actions of the United States and other unfriendly foreign states,” the order stated. A key goal, it said, was “to position the Russian state on the international stage as a custodian and defender of traditional universal spiritual and moral values.”

Putin’s descriptions of the West as “satanic” and the war as “sacred” are increasingly echoed by officials and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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An obvious attempt to distract from the radical leftist problems this country is currently experiencing.

India is also becoming less diverse. Modi supports Hindus and turns a blind eye when they target Muslims and other religious minorities in the Asian subcontinent.

Seeing much less free press and free speech all over the world. China silenced Hong Kong. Even seeing government crackdowns on free speech in Australia and Canada.

FredHayek wrote: Even seeing government crackdowns on free speech in Australia and Canada.

I'm interested in knowing where you have read this. Can you provide a link?

koobookie wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Even seeing government crackdowns on free speech in Australia and Canada.

I'm interested in knowing where you have read this. Can you provide a link?

Here's one...

Free Speech Is Under Such Threat In Canada It Would Make Orwell Blush

Shockingly, the Canadian government is pushing new legislation that would, among other abominations, allow you to be arrested if a judge is convinced you are about to say something that is considered unlawful.

That’s right: You don’t have to say it to be arrested, just the suspicion that you might. Canada is about to make a reality of what George Orwell labeled “thoughtcrime” in his dystopian novel 1984.

Cuba, North Korea and other tyrannies are applauding.

www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2024/03...ush/?sh=3c0589981f0d
I wonder if Canada will try to push a misinformation Czar on it's citizens like Joe and his commie handlers TRIED to do to us?

As for Australia, koobookie, I think you need to do a little research. That country doesn't have real freedom of speech like we were promised by our brilliant founders. Your trusted leaders would love to go the way of Australia and Canada, but not enough of our population has been brainwashed yet, so it's difficult to take those rights at this time.

Australia wanted to charge people who made memes showing politicians in a bad light!

Imagine America if political cartoons were banned.

We would all be in jail. But, at least we wouldn't be able to offend anyone, other than the other prisoners.