I am a social working for 45 years in Africa and East Asia... now back in dk a social welfare state that sometimes forget kids are best off with their native family... what this lady and her team is doing is monumental and inspiring... I would love to help and this report has given me some ide how I could help if I moved to Russia... even if only for 6 months a year... the limit you get without loosing your pension ))))) GOD BLESS... CONTINUE TO BLESS THIS LADY AND HER TEAM...
Yes, the whole movement in Russia is inspiring, yet its main formulator is attacked as a demon or worse. Putin is a very tall historical figure already when the crap's removed and he's viewed honestly.
Thank you Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin for identifying the key role of the state, "revival of the large multi-generational family". What a pleasure to hear this most important of human organization & government practices discussed at a National level.
In English we refer to the "Extended-family" of children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, Grand-parents & Great-Grand-parents with even close neighbours & friends included in this mutual-aid regard.
Across 'indigenous' Celtic & Slavic Europe, this was known as the 'System-of-100s'. On Turtle-Island/N. America the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People-of-the-extended-rafters') Confederacy call this the 'Kaianere'kowa' (Iroq. 'Great-good-way-of-Kindness' aka 'Great-Law-of-Peace' aka 'Constitution'). In southern Africa, the Nguni call it 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'). Every indigenous nation on every continent & island cultivated this Multi-generational system. One Russian author, Count Petr Kropotkin is excellent on describing some aspects of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, Russia & parts of Europe, particularly in his major work 'Mutual-Aid, a Factor of Evolution'.
This worldwide practice only stops with violent invasion, occupation, genocide with ravages of Oligarch directed Colonization from Oligarch mismanaged exhausted often turned to desert, 'exogenous' (L. 'other-generated') failed economies & ecologies. Empires take over 'indigenous' nations to extract & exploit human, physical & biosphere resources & in doing so expand failure as a permanent system. Violence breeds ignorance & implements CENTRALLY CONTROLLED INAPPROPRIATELY SCALED INSTITUTIONS. As a Specialized Educator volunteering & working in institutions for the so-called 'Intellectually-Handicapped' over decades in Residences, Group-Homes, Protected-Workshops & Hospitals, I grew aware how the typical 5 shift-staff per day plus 3 specialist totals 2922 Changes of the Guard per year. No staff has a personal commitment or collaborative reciprocal relation with a client. Clients are treated for their perceived Deficits & not celebrated-employed for their gifts.
APPROPRIATELY SCALED INSTITUTIONS
70% of people today live in multihomes with an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute trillions of $ of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions. The ~100 person Multihome there is loving intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale for very efficient operations. Generations brought together with Female-male balance provide wisdom & inspiration simultaneously as Checks & Balances against abuses, which states by definition are incapable of. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
WHAT A NETWORK OF COMMUNITIES DEVOTED TO INDIGENEITY ARE DOING.
If those in Russia & other parts of the world, would like to know more about this 'indigenous' 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') modelled solution with positive impacts on every aspect of the human condition, we will be more than happy to communicate with you
Karl, Thanks for reporting this excellent & rare policy statement. The tent-families are interesting in terms of being a beautiful model of human family quality for all of us to learn from. However, I believe Maria Lvova Belova's message is how this model reflect all of Russian people's values. The rural examples are outmatched by a factor of 10,000 fold by Russia's Soviet policy of Multihome construction, still ubiquitous as the foundation of most social service delivery in the cities & rural areas of Russia. Russian speaking & origin Friends & neighbours describe to me how the Soviet style Multihomes are even more numerous than here in Canada & the USA. Russia has some wonderful gifts for the whole world!
QUALITY SOVIET CONSTRUCTION METHODS
My numerous Russia, Ukrainian & Polish friends in our Housing development number 450 Slav speakers. These intimates, tell me about how Soviet style Concrete based floors, walls & roof construction methods are long-lasting, hygienically clean & fire-safe, without our Canadian & US Wood-frame construction problems of inappropriately placed vapour barriers, mold, rot, leakages, insect-damage, mice, roof-collapse & other issues. I've worked on housing research & analysis projects for the Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporations, from my >60 years involvement in design, building, architecture, engineering, repair etc.
70% of people live in 1) Multihomes. As colonized societies we are unaware of the 2) Time-based Equivalency Accounting & 3) COUNCIL-PROCESS used to animate all our indigenous ancestors at the scale of the ~100 person Multihomes. Hence we have the physical structures still but not the social-economic know-how still about how to organize the natural Multihome strengths of all humanity. My 1st Nation & worldwide indigenous teachers have encouraged me to focus on animation of the average ~100 person Multihome as the foundation for re-empowerment of people locally through their extended families. Such strengthening of the ~100 person base, worth from ~1 million $ of earning & spending at poverty levels to ~100 million $ at rich Condo levels carries an incredible capacity to strengthen all people everywhere. Politics is always based on an underlying, often not understood, but common 'Economic' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') power of Multi-Stakeholders. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
The Multi-generation family still does represent much of Africa, South America, Central America, Southern & East Asian Cultural-Heritage & current practice, way out-matching any western inappropriately scaled institutional practices, which western funded NGO, Non-Profits & so-called AID organizations try to impose. 20% of Multihome-Dwellers worldwide are in Extended-Families, living intentionally in Proximity & privacy for social & economic collaboration. The Oligarch west is constantly trying to impose their failed system of detached nuclear-family, suburban sprawl housing dependent on cars & massive highway systems. 3rd World & indigenous peoples with cultural memory, know they are being mislead. Liken Bottom-up 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') caring & sharing to the natural Autonomous gene, cell, tissue & organ functions of the human body, where the base is strong in ECONOMIC-MEMORY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Properly designed, the multifamily home can be made energy neutral and be a community in itself. One major difference with Russia--it includes large business operations as part of society that must interact with it beyond the factory walls. And it may seem tedious to those of us not accustomed, but the use of the patronymic when conversing brings people closer.
Yes the Soviet 'Co-operative' (Latin 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders') model brought many people into the position of both building & living in their community housing & associated industry & commercial facilities, often within in walking distances.
The Cement-style Soviet-style architecture is fantastic for improving with various forms of insulation bring the homes to Energy-Neutral, not needing massive inputs of electricity. Multihomes cost 1/3rd to build, 1/3rd to operate with heating, water & other services, 1/3rd to service (municipally), so are actually the greatest of ecologically efficient designs. People who have experienced this humane Multi-family design, love their memory of the Soviet period.
The 'Communist' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') Revolution still needs to be honestly reviewed for the (Lev-Davidovich Bronstein) Trotsky & Lenin western financed Jacob Schiff (Wallstreet tycoon) & Warburg (German financier) respective, imposed violence which took Russia's great strides violently astray from the humane system of Economic Memory, which people everywhere, hope for. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
ELEMENTAL DESIGN (Sun, Water, Air, Soil & Life) All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (L 'self-generating') ancestors built their homes in alignment with the forces of nature, east-west, geometrically with the sun in each season, capturing rain-snow, capturing wind energy in associated trees, Bio-digesting fecal, urine & kitchen cuttings. This intelligent design was lost with Oligarch violent economic & political imposition. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design
1969-80, I lived among Russian Doukhobor communities (about 45000 people) as well as German Mennonite (~3000) & English Quaker (~2000) among about 3000 mostly American Draft Dodgers looking for a better way of living, in the West Kootenays of British Columbia. From 1969 to 1999, I helped develop & operate the Natural Food Co-op Network of British Columbia & then Quebec. The problem with co-ops is the lack of recognition for contributions as well as the significant differences in contribution by each stakeholder. The English Rochdale 'One-member / One-vote model failed in all the above communities including across Russia & the Soviet bloc, because it does not recognize, nor incentivize the contributions of each stakeholder, nor allow stakeholders to work together.
Decision in One-member/one-vote systems are inappropriately made across Annual General meetings as Opinions, often upon the work of others rather than of the Contribution, Experience, Expertise & Decision-making Acumen of those involved in each area. For this reason western & Russian co-ops failed. The whole Soviet system based on these fake 'co-ops' were failing across the Russian continent. At this point Stalin began the process of Centralization of decision-making & Economies-of-Scale. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/3-sharing-our-livelihood
As I was working in developing co-ops, across the British Columbia province, we realized how co-ops weren't motivating popular involvement, so we formed an INDIGENOUS ECONOMY STUDY GROUP to learn about humanity's ancestral 'indigenous' Time-based Equivalency Accounting One-share/One-vote systems on the worldwide String-shell, progressive multistakeholder ownership in the specialized Production-Society Guilds. Co-ops wouldn't even dialogue or debate the issues before us, so all went bankrupt by about 1990. I was fortunate to innovate & implement Multistakeholder 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') investment, ownership & board-representation in 1st a Pulp-mill, then 2 continental company networks.
These co-op failing Economic-Engine problems were beyond the capacities of Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev etc. to solve. The Soviet bloc nations understood how dysfunctional & destructive to lives, which basic centralized government had become & resented Soviet imposition of Co-ops over their village & colonial private ownership systems. Resentment tapped by western destabilization efforts, regardless of the significant strengths of the original 'Community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') movement & its intentions. Joe Biden himself starting from the fake Orange Revolution on, has a 45 year involvement in destabilization efforts, with his sons Hunter & Beau to bring war & mass-murder to Ukraine.
Thank you Karl. A very uplifting read for a Sunday. Maria Lvova-Belova is another admirable individual who doesn't just sit in an office feeling important and issuing instructions or rhetorical statements. Not sure I could name an equivalent official here in the UK satrapy either in government or the commercial sphere.
M. Lvova-Belova strikes me as astute, confident, hard-working and hands-on. She doesn't sit in an ivory tower, she goes out to the regions, even into homes, to see what families and children are actually dealing with. Then she lays it all out for Putin to hear, warts and all. So she's a straight shooter as well. This foretells a promising future in the Russian government.
I keep on encountering competence within Team Putin. I don't report the regional governor appointments, but the last several are from the same time period of having come of age during the Great Rape and its massive dislocation. There may be one half the people in Russia versus the USA but there're more people involved with government as ratio because Russia has more to govern and does more for its smaller population.
It all goes to the children. Normal people want them, give birth to them, and love them. The state must encourage normal people in this and all other ways. God says, "Be fruitful and multiply." He does not put an upward limit on the number of children thus brought into this breathing world and fostered by their parents, with state facilitation, to adult maturity and a career guided by each one's inner necessity.
"Inner necessity," BTW, is a phrase coined by a great Russian painter and writer, Wassily Kandinsky. My wife and I used it to guide us to educate our offspring. We brought to them what we perceived would cultivate their inner necessity.
Inner necessity is unique in each of us. Its embodiment is what makes us happy.
Did you read Putin's chat with the large families? Take a trip through the Gym's small archive to see how many reports deal with Russia's social policy and his meetings with young people. "The Morality of the Large Family" that extends beyond its initial economic importance. Family and Honor and the longstanding soviet ethos. So few outside Russia have any conception, but at least a few thousand are being exposed.
I saw it, did not read it, because I know its gist. Nothing could contrast more colorfully than Russian values (family) and so-called Western values (queer), which are not Western values in fact. One is real, one is nominal. The real one persists because God is real.
Thanks for this Karl. With so much reporting on the strategic elements of the SMO itself, lost is the human element that is being impacted. She is truly doing Gods work.
Near tears reading this...
I am a social working for 45 years in Africa and East Asia... now back in dk a social welfare state that sometimes forget kids are best off with their native family... what this lady and her team is doing is monumental and inspiring... I would love to help and this report has given me some ide how I could help if I moved to Russia... even if only for 6 months a year... the limit you get without loosing your pension ))))) GOD BLESS... CONTINUE TO BLESS THIS LADY AND HER TEAM...
Yes, the whole movement in Russia is inspiring, yet its main formulator is attacked as a demon or worse. Putin is a very tall historical figure already when the crap's removed and he's viewed honestly.
Thank you Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin for identifying the key role of the state, "revival of the large multi-generational family". What a pleasure to hear this most important of human organization & government practices discussed at a National level.
In English we refer to the "Extended-family" of children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, Grand-parents & Great-Grand-parents with even close neighbours & friends included in this mutual-aid regard.
All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated the Multi-generational-family in strategic Proximity with Privacy, through the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
Across 'indigenous' Celtic & Slavic Europe, this was known as the 'System-of-100s'. On Turtle-Island/N. America the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People-of-the-extended-rafters') Confederacy call this the 'Kaianere'kowa' (Iroq. 'Great-good-way-of-Kindness' aka 'Great-Law-of-Peace' aka 'Constitution'). In southern Africa, the Nguni call it 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'). Every indigenous nation on every continent & island cultivated this Multi-generational system. One Russian author, Count Petr Kropotkin is excellent on describing some aspects of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, Russia & parts of Europe, particularly in his major work 'Mutual-Aid, a Factor of Evolution'.
This worldwide practice only stops with violent invasion, occupation, genocide with ravages of Oligarch directed Colonization from Oligarch mismanaged exhausted often turned to desert, 'exogenous' (L. 'other-generated') failed economies & ecologies. Empires take over 'indigenous' nations to extract & exploit human, physical & biosphere resources & in doing so expand failure as a permanent system. Violence breeds ignorance & implements CENTRALLY CONTROLLED INAPPROPRIATELY SCALED INSTITUTIONS. As a Specialized Educator volunteering & working in institutions for the so-called 'Intellectually-Handicapped' over decades in Residences, Group-Homes, Protected-Workshops & Hospitals, I grew aware how the typical 5 shift-staff per day plus 3 specialist totals 2922 Changes of the Guard per year. No staff has a personal commitment or collaborative reciprocal relation with a client. Clients are treated for their perceived Deficits & not celebrated-employed for their gifts.
APPROPRIATELY SCALED INSTITUTIONS
70% of people today live in multihomes with an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute trillions of $ of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions. The ~100 person Multihome there is loving intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale for very efficient operations. Generations brought together with Female-male balance provide wisdom & inspiration simultaneously as Checks & Balances against abuses, which states by definition are incapable of. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
WHAT A NETWORK OF COMMUNITIES DEVOTED TO INDIGENEITY ARE DOING.
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software: A) CATALOGUE intake form. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames
C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating understanding, Constructive Agreements & for Conflict Resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues.
If those in Russia & other parts of the world, would like to know more about this 'indigenous' 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') modelled solution with positive impacts on every aspect of the human condition, we will be more than happy to communicate with you
The comment about the tent family where Russia has much to learn from them. She's a very sharp cookie doing great work.
Karl, Thanks for reporting this excellent & rare policy statement. The tent-families are interesting in terms of being a beautiful model of human family quality for all of us to learn from. However, I believe Maria Lvova Belova's message is how this model reflect all of Russian people's values. The rural examples are outmatched by a factor of 10,000 fold by Russia's Soviet policy of Multihome construction, still ubiquitous as the foundation of most social service delivery in the cities & rural areas of Russia. Russian speaking & origin Friends & neighbours describe to me how the Soviet style Multihomes are even more numerous than here in Canada & the USA. Russia has some wonderful gifts for the whole world!
QUALITY SOVIET CONSTRUCTION METHODS
My numerous Russia, Ukrainian & Polish friends in our Housing development number 450 Slav speakers. These intimates, tell me about how Soviet style Concrete based floors, walls & roof construction methods are long-lasting, hygienically clean & fire-safe, without our Canadian & US Wood-frame construction problems of inappropriately placed vapour barriers, mold, rot, leakages, insect-damage, mice, roof-collapse & other issues. I've worked on housing research & analysis projects for the Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporations, from my >60 years involvement in design, building, architecture, engineering, repair etc.
70% of people live in 1) Multihomes. As colonized societies we are unaware of the 2) Time-based Equivalency Accounting & 3) COUNCIL-PROCESS used to animate all our indigenous ancestors at the scale of the ~100 person Multihomes. Hence we have the physical structures still but not the social-economic know-how still about how to organize the natural Multihome strengths of all humanity. My 1st Nation & worldwide indigenous teachers have encouraged me to focus on animation of the average ~100 person Multihome as the foundation for re-empowerment of people locally through their extended families. Such strengthening of the ~100 person base, worth from ~1 million $ of earning & spending at poverty levels to ~100 million $ at rich Condo levels carries an incredible capacity to strengthen all people everywhere. Politics is always based on an underlying, often not understood, but common 'Economic' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') power of Multi-Stakeholders. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
The Multi-generation family still does represent much of Africa, South America, Central America, Southern & East Asian Cultural-Heritage & current practice, way out-matching any western inappropriately scaled institutional practices, which western funded NGO, Non-Profits & so-called AID organizations try to impose. 20% of Multihome-Dwellers worldwide are in Extended-Families, living intentionally in Proximity & privacy for social & economic collaboration. The Oligarch west is constantly trying to impose their failed system of detached nuclear-family, suburban sprawl housing dependent on cars & massive highway systems. 3rd World & indigenous peoples with cultural memory, know they are being mislead. Liken Bottom-up 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') caring & sharing to the natural Autonomous gene, cell, tissue & organ functions of the human body, where the base is strong in ECONOMIC-MEMORY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Properly designed, the multifamily home can be made energy neutral and be a community in itself. One major difference with Russia--it includes large business operations as part of society that must interact with it beyond the factory walls. And it may seem tedious to those of us not accustomed, but the use of the patronymic when conversing brings people closer.
Yes the Soviet 'Co-operative' (Latin 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders') model brought many people into the position of both building & living in their community housing & associated industry & commercial facilities, often within in walking distances.
The Cement-style Soviet-style architecture is fantastic for improving with various forms of insulation bring the homes to Energy-Neutral, not needing massive inputs of electricity. Multihomes cost 1/3rd to build, 1/3rd to operate with heating, water & other services, 1/3rd to service (municipally), so are actually the greatest of ecologically efficient designs. People who have experienced this humane Multi-family design, love their memory of the Soviet period.
The 'Communist' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') Revolution still needs to be honestly reviewed for the (Lev-Davidovich Bronstein) Trotsky & Lenin western financed Jacob Schiff (Wallstreet tycoon) & Warburg (German financier) respective, imposed violence which took Russia's great strides violently astray from the humane system of Economic Memory, which people everywhere, hope for. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
ELEMENTAL DESIGN (Sun, Water, Air, Soil & Life) All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (L 'self-generating') ancestors built their homes in alignment with the forces of nature, east-west, geometrically with the sun in each season, capturing rain-snow, capturing wind energy in associated trees, Bio-digesting fecal, urine & kitchen cuttings. This intelligent design was lost with Oligarch violent economic & political imposition. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design
The National Film Board of Canada produced a film ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE, LIVING ARCHITECTURE to describe indigenous elemental design. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/7-aboriginal-architecture-living-architecture
1969-80, I lived among Russian Doukhobor communities (about 45000 people) as well as German Mennonite (~3000) & English Quaker (~2000) among about 3000 mostly American Draft Dodgers looking for a better way of living, in the West Kootenays of British Columbia. From 1969 to 1999, I helped develop & operate the Natural Food Co-op Network of British Columbia & then Quebec. The problem with co-ops is the lack of recognition for contributions as well as the significant differences in contribution by each stakeholder. The English Rochdale 'One-member / One-vote model failed in all the above communities including across Russia & the Soviet bloc, because it does not recognize, nor incentivize the contributions of each stakeholder, nor allow stakeholders to work together.
Decision in One-member/one-vote systems are inappropriately made across Annual General meetings as Opinions, often upon the work of others rather than of the Contribution, Experience, Expertise & Decision-making Acumen of those involved in each area. For this reason western & Russian co-ops failed. The whole Soviet system based on these fake 'co-ops' were failing across the Russian continent. At this point Stalin began the process of Centralization of decision-making & Economies-of-Scale. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/3-sharing-our-livelihood
As I was working in developing co-ops, across the British Columbia province, we realized how co-ops weren't motivating popular involvement, so we formed an INDIGENOUS ECONOMY STUDY GROUP to learn about humanity's ancestral 'indigenous' Time-based Equivalency Accounting One-share/One-vote systems on the worldwide String-shell, progressive multistakeholder ownership in the specialized Production-Society Guilds. Co-ops wouldn't even dialogue or debate the issues before us, so all went bankrupt by about 1990. I was fortunate to innovate & implement Multistakeholder 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') investment, ownership & board-representation in 1st a Pulp-mill, then 2 continental company networks.
Participatory Companies http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Rateable Corporations https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/3-rateable-non-profit-corporations
These co-op failing Economic-Engine problems were beyond the capacities of Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev etc. to solve. The Soviet bloc nations understood how dysfunctional & destructive to lives, which basic centralized government had become & resented Soviet imposition of Co-ops over their village & colonial private ownership systems. Resentment tapped by western destabilization efforts, regardless of the significant strengths of the original 'Community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') movement & its intentions. Joe Biden himself starting from the fake Orange Revolution on, has a 45 year involvement in destabilization efforts, with his sons Hunter & Beau to bring war & mass-murder to Ukraine.
Thank you Karl. A very uplifting read for a Sunday. Maria Lvova-Belova is another admirable individual who doesn't just sit in an office feeling important and issuing instructions or rhetorical statements. Not sure I could name an equivalent official here in the UK satrapy either in government or the commercial sphere.
Karl your reports are very valuable... think you.
M. Lvova-Belova strikes me as astute, confident, hard-working and hands-on. She doesn't sit in an ivory tower, she goes out to the regions, even into homes, to see what families and children are actually dealing with. Then she lays it all out for Putin to hear, warts and all. So she's a straight shooter as well. This foretells a promising future in the Russian government.
I keep on encountering competence within Team Putin. I don't report the regional governor appointments, but the last several are from the same time period of having come of age during the Great Rape and its massive dislocation. There may be one half the people in Russia versus the USA but there're more people involved with government as ratio because Russia has more to govern and does more for its smaller population.
Putin says that things must be worked out on the front line.
The family is the front line of the collective.
This is the first time I have seen a discussion at this bottom up level.
Yes, Russia has problems like others in the world. Teenagers are a challenge.
And for sure, coherence at the top is important.
They are facing challenges and working to make things better.
It all goes to the children. Normal people want them, give birth to them, and love them. The state must encourage normal people in this and all other ways. God says, "Be fruitful and multiply." He does not put an upward limit on the number of children thus brought into this breathing world and fostered by their parents, with state facilitation, to adult maturity and a career guided by each one's inner necessity.
"Inner necessity," BTW, is a phrase coined by a great Russian painter and writer, Wassily Kandinsky. My wife and I used it to guide us to educate our offspring. We brought to them what we perceived would cultivate their inner necessity.
Inner necessity is unique in each of us. Its embodiment is what makes us happy.
Did you read Putin's chat with the large families? Take a trip through the Gym's small archive to see how many reports deal with Russia's social policy and his meetings with young people. "The Morality of the Large Family" that extends beyond its initial economic importance. Family and Honor and the longstanding soviet ethos. So few outside Russia have any conception, but at least a few thousand are being exposed.
I saw it, did not read it, because I know its gist. Nothing could contrast more colorfully than Russian values (family) and so-called Western values (queer), which are not Western values in fact. One is real, one is nominal. The real one persists because God is real.
fascinating article karl... thanks for sharing it! i read that she has 5 biological and 18 adopted children!
Wow! I didn't dig into her bio, just the few facts I mentioned. She deserves an Icon.
maybe she already got one, lol!
Thanks for this Karl. With so much reporting on the strategic elements of the SMO itself, lost is the human element that is being impacted. She is truly doing Gods work.
Jealous!
There ought to be more than one such woman. But I'll wager there're more in Russia than in the USA.
Count the married women. Expressing disagreement with the orthodoxy gets you disapproved.
I think you'll like this op/ed. It would make an excellent article.