{"id":735,"date":"2012-08-31T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=735"},"modified":"2012-08-31T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:09:47","slug":"pussy-riot-russian-history-not-quite-repeating-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2012\/08\/31\/pussy-riot-russian-history-not-quite-repeating-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Pussy Riot – Russian History NOT quite repeating itself ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There has been so much written about the Pussy Riot case that I am sure that you can make your own minds up about it. There is however an interesting interview in\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0Yekaterina Samutsevich. In it she\u00a0\u00a0 argues “more than anything, our trial showed the dependence of the justice system, and its direct authority, on Putin’s power, which clearly should not be the case in a government that calls itself democratic,”<\/em>\u00a0 The article then continues\u00a0“Pussy Riot and their supporters have accused Putin, and the powerful Russian Orthodox church, of orchestrating the case against them.”<\/em><\/p>\n

If you accept this, then\u00a0in the context of our course this is quite surprising. Yes, there is continuity in the use of repression from the centre. However, more interesting is Putin, with his KGB background, allied to what Marx called “the opiate of the masses” – the Orthodox Church.\u00a0 The Church was seen as one of the “props” (Rogger) of Tsarism.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the answer to this rapproachment lies in their common enemy, or rather what they perceive to be their common enemy\u00a0of anarchism. After the launching of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Churchill said of his new\u00a0chum -Stalinist Russia “If Hitler invaded hell itself I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons<\/em>“. That marriage did not outlast the fall of the Nazi leader…<\/p>\n

Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has been so much written about the Pussy Riot case that I am sure that you can make your own minds up about it. There is however an interesting interview in\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0Yekaterina Samutsevich. In it she\u00a0\u00a0 argues “more than … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}