On June 12, right wing internet political blogger “Thuletide” posted an article on Wordpress essentially repeating what many critics of the dissident right’s support of Russia have been saying, that Russia is in fact not “based” or “trad” but decadent and degenerate because of high abortion rates, low Church attendance, alcoholism, and so on. The aim of this response is not to portray Russia as a perfect Christian utopia, but to recognize her virtues and imperfections, and analyze them fairly. After calling Russians “Orthodox Larpers” and pro Russian Westerners “Imbeciles” Thuletide goes on to present several graphs and data tables that are supposed to prove Russia’s degeneracy. Let’s analyze them.
I don’t see any evidence of that being the case. High divorce rates are probably caused by alcoholism and destruction of the family unit in the Soviet period.
You could also say that Russia has a divorce problem because the Russian Orthodox Church itself tolerates divorce until the third time
I don’t see any evidence of that being the case. High divorce rates are probably caused by alcoholism and destruction of the family unit in the Soviet period.
Just because I yelled at you on Twitter......