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Alexandra Makhacheva 27 February 2024
Shortly before launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin claimed that “the hegemony of the West is aimed at a complete denial of faith, acquiring features of Satanism.” Kremlin-backed propaganda immediately picked up on this new moniker for Europeans, adding it to old tropes about “Nazis” and “sodomites.” In reality, however, Satanism is a subculture that is thriving in Russia at this very minute. Moreover, “politically correct” Satanists – that is, those willing to take up arms and kill Ukrainians – are decorated with Russian government awards. The Insider took a closer look at how the flock of Lucifer is faring in today’s Russia.
A “holy” war
In September 2022, at the ceremony “accepting” the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk into Russia, Vladimir Putin once again spoke about the West, demonizing it in the literal sense: “Such a complete denial of man, the subversion of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom takes on the characteristics of religion in reverse – outright Satanism.” Aping Putin, Kremlin propagandists picked up the term.
In one of many examples, the often-cited talk show host Vladimir Solovyov asserted that the authorities in Ukraine, the U.S., and Western Europe serve the “prince of darkness” and equated negotiating with Ukraine to “bargaining with Satan.” As part of an extended rant, Solovyov, who until recently vacationed every summer at his villa on Lake Como in Italy, reasoned that, “In fact, if you think about it, what we see is Satanism. Demons, that’s the only way to put it. … If we are dealing with the cronies of the prince of darkness, if we are dealing with a satanic entity, what kind of negotiations are we even talking about? How can you bargain with Satan? They kept lying all the time. It is the basis of Western satanic civilization.” Solovyov said. He went on to compare a potential nuclear strike against the West to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament.
Meanwhile, plagued with personnel shortages, the Russian military command is releasing murderers, cannibals, and serial rapists from prisons, promising them pardons in exchange for taking up arms. Some of them are real life Satanists, convicted of ritual murder. The Kremlin insists that these felons “atone for their guilt with blood” at the front.
On November 21, 2023, Nikolai Ogolobyak, 33, returned from the battlefield in Ukraine to his hometown of Yaroslavl, where he’d been serving a sentence for ritual murders.In 2008, Ogolobyak and his associates brutally murdered four people in a Satanic ritual before dismembering and eating the corpses. A court found them guilty in 2010. Ogolobyak received the maximum sentence of 20 years, of which he served 15 (including two years in pre-trial detention). He then filed a motion to participate in Russia’s “special military operation.” After a short period of fighting, he was wounded and pardoned. Ogolobyak himself insisted in an interview that he “never ate anyone” and that the ritual murders “happened by accident.”
Nikolay Ogolobyak
But while satanists like Ogolobyak have been praised by the Kremlin’s propagandists, the mercenary group that sent them off to war, the Wagner private military company, has suffered a very different fate. In the first months of the war, Wagner fighters were hailed in pro-Kremlin media as heroes, with some “patriotic” mouthpieces going so far as to call them “saints,” “heavenly,” and “God’s army.” However, after the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led an abortive armed rebellion against the Russian military command this past June, the Russian Orthodox clergy suddenly discovered that several of the mercenaries had gravitated towards paganism and Satanism.
In other words, any opponent of the current regime becomes a “Satanist” in the language of propaganda. Meanwhile, actual Satanism is a fairly popular subculture in Russia, with thousands of followers and a century-long history.
The article continues with a detailed report on Satanism in Russia, so it goes kind of off topic. Full article here:
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Another interesting article from the same site:
Prepare rather than wait: What should the international tribunal on Ukraine look like, and who will stand trial?
To mark the second anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Insider is launching a series of texts devoted to international tribunals. In the inaugural article, international law expert Evhen Tsybulenko lays out the necessary structure of a tribunal for Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and while arguing that reliance on the International Criminal Court in The Hague alone may prove inadequate.
Full article :
https://theins.press/en/opinion/evhen-tsybulenko/269476
Let’s not forget the ruskie orthodox “church”. It’s much closer to Satan than Christ.