Quoted in "He Shut Liquor Stores and Banned Abortion, All for the Glory of Russia/A firebrand governor aims to transform his region into a laboratory for the Kremlin’s reactionary ideals" (NYT)(gift like).
"He" = Georgy Y. Filimonov, "the governor of the northern region of Vologda," who has "vigorously embraced the sort of 'traditional Russian values' espoused by the Kremlin, asserting Vologda as an undistilled bastion of 'Russianness.'"
And here's a quote from Misha Priyemyshev, "a designer who worked on branding for the city before Mr. Filimonov’s arrival": "Everything is very slow here, like in a true swamp. That swamp has a lot of power — the more you move in it, the more it sucks you in."
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The writer probably came up with the metaphorically-upside-down "undistilled" after dithering between "distilled" and "undiluted".
"But while the number of abortions in Vologda has plummeted, women have gone to other regions for the procedure, including a group that sent an angry petition to local officials."
So women who really want abortions are still getting them. And alcoholics can still get their booze. He just reduced the liquor store hours to 2 per day. OMG the horror.
Restricting abortion and binge drinking = Russian values
Unlimited abortion and alcoholism = NYT's values.
I loved that the guy refused to talk to the NYT's reporter. He was smart enough to know that no good would come of it. She would've slanted anything he said and just included what she wanted.
Closing the liquor stores does not sound very Russiany.
I’m confused. Which city was Misha talking about?
That last line explains DC... and higher ed in America today.
A culture taught to hate itself is not long for this world. Non-Westerners watch the West's slow suicide and choose a different path.
Well if it's undistilled in Russia, that's something new and different right there.
"Maybe such freaks should come to power -- those who aren't afraid of anything, who just do things."
I have been thinking the same thing myself, although not in the Russian context. Orange Man good!
"Reactionary" is such an interesting word. It sounds like it's a bad thing, but nine times out of ten, it's just a Lefty saying, "We've pushed normal, everyday, common sense people long enough and hard enough that they've finally paid attention to our stupid bullsh*t and are starting to push back."
The 1960’s pushed the pendulum one way.
It kept swinging.
Now it is going to swing back.
Abortion is the lever the globalists use to control women.
Women are told they have nothing and live in the handmaid’s tale if they can’t kill embryos and chop up and sell baby parts.
Look at how it Ann’s life was wrapped around the axel of abortion.
Are we allowed to question this or are we just going to get REEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! ?
"He Shut Liquor Stores /"He" = Georgy Y. Filimonov, "the governor of the northern region of Vologda," who has "vigorously embraced the sort of 'traditional Russian values' espoused by the Kremlin, asserting Vologda as an undistilled bastion of 'Russianness’”
I’ve always had the impression that Russians preferred their Russianness highly distilled.
People need to understand, "Shut liquor stores" doesn't mean "Close liquor stores". The liquor stores are open. Just for fewer hours.
He was appointed by Putin in 2023 then later won an "election."
"Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of the Governor of the Vologda region Oleg Kuvshinnikov. This is reported by the press service of the Kremlin.
The decree says that Kuvshinnikov resigned at his own request.
The acting head of the region was appointed Georgy Filimonov, who had previously been Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Region."
Didn't see that mentioned in the Times article.
Seems important to understanding the story.
RCOCEAN II said...
People need to understand, "Shut liquor stores" doesn't mean "Close liquor stores". The liquor stores are open. Just for fewer hours.
Imagine the NYTs and other supporters of abortion being intentionally dishonest.
Elective abortion is a wicked solution to a hard problem ("burden"). Planned parenthood after six weeks is homicide outside of progressive sects.
Ironically, alcohol is a first-order forcing of performing human rites with a liberal license. #HateLovesAbortion
Is Svetlana an advocate of RAAT? #MeTooToo?
Selective-child? Where the State transfers Choice to a woman. The National Socialists had a concept of Diversity and life deemed unworthy of life. Other leftist sects performed human rites to progress their Democratic/dictatorial ambitions at the twilight fringe. The Pro-Choice religion is misogynistic, transhumane. Women deserve a better choice than to be comforted in aborting a technical term-of-art "fetus" in lieu of a human baby.
Closing the liquor stores won't accomplish anything but boosting the already burgeoning home brewing and distillation culture.
Rabel: "Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of the Governor of the Vologda region Oleg Kuvshinnikov. This is reported by the press service of the Kremlin.
The decree says that Kuvshinnikov resigned at his own request.
The acting head of the region was appointed Georgy Filimonov, who had previously been Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Region."
Didn't see that mentioned in the Times article.
Seems important to understanding the story.
No shit. "All the news that's fit to print."
Let me guess--Kuvshinnikov subsequently committed suicide under mysterious circumstances?
Tsar Peter I dragged the Russians, boyars and peasants alike, from their accustomed oriental stupor into the modernity of 18th-century Europe kicking and screaming.
How many Western historians of Russian have used that phrase, kicking and screaming, or its equivalent? Every one of them, as far as I can tell. Kicking and screaming, it's a painful cliché, yet nonetheless accurate. Whether it's a Mongol khan, a tsar, or a general secretary of the Communist Party doing the dragging, ordinary Russians do the screaming in a tone of masochistic submission: Little Father, please flog us. We deserve it, but we'll never change.
"Maybe such freaks should come to power — those who aren’t afraid of anything, who just do things — at least there are visible changes."
That's exactly what the voters in NYC said when they elected The Smilin' Mamdani to redistribute the food.
Quaestor said...
Closing the liquor stores won't accomplish anything but boosting the already burgeoning home brewing and distillation culture.
It is almost like the NYTs wants people to misunderstand what actually happened.
Does the Times ever want people to understand (rhetorical)
And they arent the only ones
A psychopath will perform a human rite. Her friend will surely encourage aborting the "burden" of evidence. Demos-cracy dies under the dark veil of darkness at the twilight fringe. No hope. No change. Progress.
Yeah yeah--Russians drink too much and have too many (according to some) abortions.
Nothing new, and there's nothing we can or should do about it.
A fetus and baby are separate but equal, albeit socially distanced.
"...Closing the liquor stores won't accomplish anything but boosting the already burgeoning home brewing and distillation culture...."
Russians will drink poison if they can't find ethanol. I've seen them drink methanol and other things you can't imagine. Their capacity for suffering is truly remarkable.
Her reaction betrays an inebriated state indulging ancient, secular traditions and practices. Is it a cause or effect of liberal license and progressive pedagogy? Perhaps a little ganja will mellow her yellow.
Abortion substituted for contraception in the Soviet era. The average might have been 4-5 abortions in a woman's reproductive years.
"Abortion substituted for contraception in the Soviet era. The average might have been 4-5 abortions in a woman's reproductive years."
Quite true, and a matter of great concern to many Western feminists, who were alarmed by the growing "abortion gap."
Beginning around 1985 the demographers of the English and American national eugenics societies realized that a birth crash was coming in Europe. They began trying to reverse the trend by studying it to understand it and by devising social initiatives to counter the crash. This group was known as the biodemographers and it became over time central enough to eugenics to end the presence of population controllers on the board of directors of the societies and to rename the American society The Society of Biodemography and Social Biology (2008) in place of The Society for the Study of Social Biology (1973) which was in place of the American Eugenics Society (1926). The Society's initiative to reduce population, Planned Parenthood, had been quite successful and the biodemographers felt sure that they could equally successfully reverse the trend. But these latter day sorcerer's apprentices could not do it. The birth crash has deepened and spread. Russia is suffering deeply from it. The war has made thing's worse. Putin is well aware of the issue. Now here's the point. The only thing the biodemographers ever found from their studies was that the birth crash has no known social policy solution for a secular society. But non-secular societies such as Israel or Saudi Arabia have resisted the crash. And the parts of any society which still believe in their traditional religion - be that religion what it may - also resist the birth crash. True belief correlates with having children. It's my opinion that Putin is encouraging traditional Russian society for the same reason he has encouraged the Russian Orthodox religion - he isn't interested in either one but he is interested in raising the birth rate. The war with the Ukraine might have got him 40 million citizens, had the Ukraine been the easy prey he expected, but instead it has killed a million Russian men. A million more left the country. The estimated population decline by 2100 has the range - 25 to 50%.
I know all this sounds irrelevant or as if I'll be issuing a Time for Handmaids call next. It's relevant because these population declines will alter Great Power status for many countries. Russia, for example, might have 70 million citizens (and mostly old) in 2100. The US now has 334 million and is still growing due to immigration. These demographic facts mean that countries will be looking at how to make motherhood attractive for reasons of national power. As a woman I know that will fail. But questions will be raised - why was motherhood once attractive? To whom is it really attractive? What social conditions help it flourish - or is it really about that freedom and love? The feminazis, the trans, the girlbosses, the mean girls, the unreal faces - all will go but these questions won't.
@wildswan, does that mean that one of the specific findings from the Society was that government can have no role in incentivizing birth via shifting incentives and economies in favor of traditional family structures? They actually concluded that, with supporting data? I am skeptical. I don't think societies, in general, have yet wrapped their collective minds around the gravity of the problem, at policy or individual levels. It's not in the cognitive realm - yet. But once it is, surely there must be more to the solution than just a reversion to traditional cultural themes.
FWIW every time I visit my kids and see their social circle, I am struck by how strong the drive for families with multiple kids and a wholesome life is.
Imbibe in moderation. Less #MeToo. Less human rites. Win. Win. Win.
Locally-governed regions are laboratories of democracy.
Democracy is a trick.
The right answer is to allow leaders to control an area and allow freedom of movement and local control over association.
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