22-year-old Russian blogger convicted for playing Pokemon Go inside a church

[GulliverFoyle]

@Enkita

Notice I used big-C Communism which is the usual way of distinguishing between the Soviet Party and communism.

Okay, I kind of figured, but I thought I’d check.

@Enkita

Marx didn’t think communism would happen in Russia so he didn’t really consider the issue.

Well, he thought it was inevitable eventually. But I take your point, he didn’t see it as originating there.

@Enkita

Look up the concept of Pravoslavie - “true believers” and realise that no amount of Communist brainwashing could hope to achieve the level of conditioning achieved by the ROC.

Aye, hence not going to ally with Catholics and Protestants no matter how willing the latter might be.

@Enkita

It was a level of backwardness comparable to the Tibetan perversion of Buddhism.

Not sure I completely agree with that analogy, but I see where you’re coming from with it and the point you’re making.

[Enkita]

@GulliverFoyle

Not sure I completely agree with that analogy

Hit a priest in either country and see what happened. In Russia you’d probably have been flogged to death with a knout; in Tibet they had inventive forms of execution.