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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new Putin-ism: Nationalism fused with conservative Christianity
Vladimir Putin meets with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill
Two recent stories offer a revealing and, to some, unsettling view of Russian President Vladimir Putins emerging state ideology. The new Putinism, you might call it, seems to be a fusion of two older Russian ideas: nationalism, sometimes with an anti-Western tinge, and conservative interpretations of Orthodox Christianity. Both stories portray the coalescing, Kremlin-pushed ideology as a response to rising dissent and, more broadly, an effort to fill an ideological vacuum that has to some extent remained since the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago.
Through the previous 12 years of his hegemony, Mr. Putin observed a balance between liberals and conservatives in the ranks of the elite, catering to each group in an effort to play one off against the other.
Today, that balance appears to have been jettisoned after liberals deserted him, with protesters taking to the streets last December and high-ranking figures such as his finance minister joining the dissenters.
The Kremlin has turned to the more conservative elements of society. More rural, older and less educated, they respond well to Mr Putins nationalist and slightly paranoid rhetoric as defender of the Orthodox faith from blasphemers and protector of the nation against foreign plots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/25/the-new-putinism-nationalism-fused-with-conservative-christianity/
Sounds like Vlad is stealing tactics from the romney campaign and the GOP in general. Jettisoning liberals and courting older more conservative voters (who feel that growing minorities and the world in general are out to get them) with themes of nationalism and conservative Christianity sounds like a tactic that would play well in tea party land.
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The new Putin-ism: Nationalism fused with conservative Christianity (Original Post)
pampango
Oct 2012
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Brickbat
(19,339 posts)1. Putin has no need to "steal" this "tactic from the Romney campaign and the GOP in general." Russia
has been working this one for centuries.
IrishMidget
(40 posts)2. Romney is that you?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)3. Putin is a Tsar in everything but name.