Thread by @DrRadchenko

The Russian Orthodox Church holds the 25th congress of the "Russian world." They adopt a policy document: [in Russian]. I nearly spilled my coffee reading it. About every sentence is pure gold, but the gist is this:patriarchia.ru/db/text/611618…

1. Russia needs to increase its population to 600 million people. This is to be achieved through government propaganda of "traditional values," criminalization of abortions, and writing off mortgages for families who have more than 2 children.

2. Russia needs to stop non-Russian migration from Central Asia, and needs instead to attract "millions" of highly qualified cadres, presumably from the West or from among Russian expatriates, who will come because they share "traditional values" and are keen to integrate.

3. Russia needs to move away from modern cities and instead build individual houses with land in the countryside. 80% of the Russian population should live in such houses (the document does not mention the problem of outdoor plumbing, however).

4. Western science - especially social science - should be scrutinized and rejected in favor of traditional Russian values.

5. Ukraine should be annexed.

6. Borders of the Russian world do not coincide with Russia's actual borders.

Anyway, I put nos. 5 & 6 at the end, because though outrageous these come down to straightforward imperialism. The other points, though, are ideological through-and-through: de-modernization, de-urbanization, the creation, basically, of a Pol Pot-like rural utopia.

I chuckled at this. Russia is to be turned into the Gardariki of the 21st century. Gardariki was a medieval old Norse term for the lands of Rus'.

Here we go, a map, stolen from Wikipedia.

A f**** Taliban. The good news is that this has been tried before and we know it doesn't work. The bad news is that these pathetic clowns are desperate to try it again.