This is just the tip of the iceberg. More on this topic to follow.
Karl Marx Meets the Devil: A Conversation with Historian Paul Kengor - Albert Mohler
In this edition of the popular podcast series "Thinking in Public," Albert Mohler talks with Paul Kengor about his book, "The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration."
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Paul Krengor mentions Earl Browder – grandfather of Bill Browder (“Putin’s #1 Enemy” – The Magnitsky Act). There’s an interesting rabbit hole diversion in itself.
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Kengor mentions the book “Marx & Satan” by Richard Wurmbrand, which is also worth a Mention. Here is an audio playlist
You can also get a PDF copy here for example
http://freepdf.info/index.php?post/Wurmbrand-Richard-Marx-and-Satan
There are many powerful segments, none more so than at 19:16 of Episode 5 which describes the fate of the Greek Christian priest, Father Zynoviy Kovalyk
See also Pp 61-62 of the PDF
“Priest Zynoviy Kovalyk was arrested by the Bolsheviks in the year 1941 and was confined in the Brygidka jail in Lviv, Ukraine. When the Germans put the Bolsheviks to flight that same year, the people of the city found the priest's blood-stained body nailed to the wall by the arms and legs, as if it were the crucified Lord. They also found about six thousand massacred prisoners, shot in the nape of the neck, whom the Bolsheviks had piled on top of each other in the cellars and covered over with plaster.
Dr. 0. Sas-Yavorsky (U.S.A.), after the capture of Lviv by the Germans near the end of June 1941, went searching for his imprisoned father and saw in the jail a priest nailed to a cross. Into his slashed stomach the Communists had placed the body of an unborn baby, taken from the womb of its mother, whose corpse lay on the blood-soaked floor. Other eyewitnesses recognized that this was the body of the renowned missionary Father Kovalyk.”
It goes on …
“Generally, to the Communists human life is cheap.
Lenin wrote during the civil war,
“It would be a shame not to shoot men for not obeying the draft and avoiding mobilization. Report more often about the results.”
Even Wikipedophilia corroborates the essential details of this atrocity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynoviy_Kovalyk
(Incidental disclaimer – as a jew, Richard Wurmbrand misleadingly conflates Satanic/Talmudic Marxism with ‘nahtsism’ – he just says Hitler was ‘more humane’.)
June 20, 2024. To be continued…
This is interesting, Julius. They definitely take a different perspective on Christianity than I would. No mention of the behind-the-scenes political machinations behind Marxism, but looking at him as an atheist who believed in Satan. They seem to believe that he maybe was demonically possessed, so think that supernatural evil exists, validating witch hunts.
They also think Ratzinger was a hero for denouncing liberation theology in Latin America. My library includes some volumes detailing the torture the Church was complicit in. And, imo, it's a false dichotomy to say there's either no god or the god of Judeo-Christianity. I'm no fan of Marx but I think they've got a splinter or two in their own eyes. Just my 2 cents.
Putin on Marxism-Leninism – a “pernicious fairy tale”
“I think that history is something that should be looked on as something that occurred in the past. We can’t erase our history. If you’re interested in how I regard this person [Ulyanov - who called himself Lenin] and the doctrine he represented, I would say that ... there was a period in my life when I was interested in Marxism-Leninism, read a lot with keen interest, found that reading curious, often logical ... as we all did. - Yes, as we all did. But for me I can say, as I grew older, the truth became more and more apparent that all of it was nothing but a beautiful, yet pernicious fairy tale. Pernicious because its ... implementation; the efforts to achieve it in our country caused enormous harm.
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… the other [thing] is they destroyed what united people of the civilized world.
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The only thing they did to keep the country together within common borders was use barbed wire.“
Putin’s response 11 years later: “I have practically nothing more to add. I am ready to repeat it word for word.“
That video has been taken down but can still be found in Russian somewhere. Nevertheless, here is Putin on a related topic …
• Putin Trashes Marx and Lenin: Practice Has Shown That Marxism Was Wrong, Family Matters!
• (Not available in my country)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mERkuxTfg