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| Russia's Medvedev Slams Putin Over 'Crusade' Remarks |
| 2011-03-21 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #4 While most in the West can tag Crusade to the attempts to reclaim Christian lands lost to the Islamic conquests, there were also concurrent Crusades carried out with similar blessings against those inhabitants of the Baltic and Slavic regions which were for conquest. The resistance by the Rus against these efforts has been celebrated and sanctified in the honors attended Alexander Nevsky and his Battle on the Ice in the culture. It didn't help that Hitler tried to rationalize his invasion of Russia with a tag of a Crusade against Bolshevism. So the word has more baggage in the Russian vernacular than ours. |
| Posted by: Procopiuis2k 2011-03-21 16:53 |
| #3 Bad cop, good cop" or power struggle? Good cop, bad cop. Putin rules with the old KGB fist. |
| Posted by: Gmanzato 2011-03-21 15:39 |
| #2 "Bad cop, good cop" or power struggle? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-21 14:46 |
| #1 They are both wrong. But of the two Mededev is more wrong. The politically correct BS he is spouting in that article, has rotten his brain. This is Jihad which has out across North Africa to to establish Sharia and a new Ummam. The crusaders have been fooled, or have themselves into backing the spittle spraying Islamists against the so called secularists. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-03-21 14:35 |