Jew World Order

Jesus Christ was the first communist in the world, cheerfully says Tamara Lavriščeva.

“Jesus said, ‘Do not gather earthly goods, you will not take them with you after death,’” she told Al Jazeera 78-year-old pensioner and Orthodox while walking difficult snow-covered streets of Moscow, with thousands of other Communists during the conference on 7 November , which characterized the almost century anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

“I thought the communists are the same,” she added, while her voice drowned in a multitude of people who sang songs from the Soviet era, carrying a red banner with the hammer and sickle and portraits of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

While he shrugged and smiled slightly, Lavriščeva rejected all the killing, imprisonment and persecution million Orthodox Christians during communism.

What she said was not only the opinion of an older woman who wanted to reconcile their faith with the ideals of his youth in the officially atheistic Soviet Union. Its selective amnesia about the persecution of believers, which the Soviet government well recorded, reflected at first sight paradoxical trend in the policy of the Russian Communist Party.

How Zyuganov called Jesus

More than 25 years since the Soviet Union broke up Communist Party began to call on the Orthodox faith, which is dominant in Russia. The only post-Soviet president Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called Jesus “the first communist” more times.

“Council is the duty of Communists and the Orthodox Church to unite,” he wrote in 2012 in the first party document on religion, because both institutions share a “common goals and enemies”. Objectives include censorship “debauchery and violence” in the mass media, eradication of Western liberalism and “its concept of human rights”, e-government and sex education in schools.

The Russian Orthodox Church account that two-thirds of the population of 143 million people in Russia by its followers. Although most of them are only nominally religious, as studies show, however, constitute a demographic group that no political force can not be ignored – even though it is the largest party, United Russia, which rules the Kremlin.

The Communist Party easily gathered tens of thousands of supporters to his rallies. Zyuganov is running for president four times, each time finishing in second place, a party led since 1993 has almost a tenth places in the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, making the second largest faction.

However, in reality, the Communist Party is a giant with feet of clay. Support her weak for years, its supporters simply dying out. The average age of members of the Communist Party is 56 years, and their number has dropped to about 155,000, a trivial number compared with 19.5 million Communists in 1989.

Zjuganovljevi says, colorless, long and known neharizmatični, difficult to attract the millennial generation and urban people from the middle class, the main opponents of the Kremlin. The Communist Party must expand its positions and secure support for its key base.

Respectful and positive response of the Church

She washed the picture of Stalin, whom the Politburo condemned and made him a taboo topic in 1956. Has increased its presence on the Internet and recruited physicists with Nobel prizes, cosmonauts, and a retired admiral in order to increase the chances in the September parliamentary elections. And – she turned to religion, what sociologists considered a populist move.

“Most pious citizens are mostly older women, pensioners, that is, in a sense, the electoral base of the Communists,” said Al Jazeera Denis Volkov of the Levada Center, which is engaged in research.

Reply of the Orthodox Church to this move was courteous and positive.

“All political forces should be united when it comes to values of faith, morals, culture and our national unity,” the Russian Patriarch Kirill in 2014, when Zyuganov gave the Medal of Glory and Honor, the highest decoration of the church, on his 70th birthday. In February, Zyuganov congratulated Cyril fifth anniversary of his inauguration.

“One of the biggest mistakes of my predecessors is that it did not follow the Church,” said the patriarch.

Every Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev before he watched to eradicate religion – regardless of which religion was. The scriptures and relics were destroyed, houses of worship were demolished or turned into schools, warehouses, and stables.

‘They were in the KGB’

Lenin ordered the numerous priests of Doom: “The more, the better.” Politburo supported the policy of “militant atheism”, which has replaced religion rigid ideology that preached worldwide triumph of communism and developed a cult of Lenin’s personality and communist “saints and martyrs.”

The ideology is imposed through propaganda machine created to regulate all spheres of Soviet life and indoctrinates children before school. One of the first Soviet youth organization called the “little red devils”. Although religion is not totally prohibited, authorities have tried to control religious institutions such as some priests made the KGB’s agents.

During the early 1990’s parliamentary commission, led by politician and Orthodox priest Gleb Yakunin, announced documents of the KGB, which showed that the top hierarchy of the Orthodox Church, including the future Patriarch Kirill, were KGB informers and. The Orthodox Church has denied these claims and excommunicated Yakunin. He joined a sect and repeatedly beat him unknown perpetrators.

However, these days the Communists even blame their own wickedness for the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“Atheism has destroyed the Soviet Union”, allegedly in July said Vadim Potomski, communist governor of the western region of Oryol.

Nostalgia for the Soviet past

Zyuganov is also occasionally mentioned Islam and Buddhism, whose believers constitute significant minorities in Russia.

“Yes, Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha were not prophets, they would be 100 percent of the Communists,” he said last December.

This turn toward religion also pointed to the transformation of the ideology of the Communist Party. Zyuganov still calls for the nationalization of Russia’s oil and gas industry and standing up against the “rotten western capitalism”. But, instead of messianic urges world “proletarian unity” today’s Communist Party embraced nationalism and used the widespread nostalgia for the Soviet past.

This is a “lot of nostalgia for imperialism and Russian nationalism, and there is no imperialism or nationalism without the Orthodox Church,” he told Al Jazeera Andrej Kolesnjikov from the Carnegie Center.

For years the Communist Party has supported some of the more controversial moves by the Kremlin, such as the annexation of Crimea, air strikes in Syria, and unpopular reforms, such as cutting social assistance.