Tornado Alley (PROG)

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nlightn, ""2011: Torshin, then a Russian senator, is introduced to NRA President David Keene through G. Kline Preston IV,
a lawyer from Nashville, Tennessee, who had been doing business in Russia for years. Preston later tells the Washington
Post, “The value system of Southern Christians and the value system of Russians are very much in line.”"

.. a very interesting timeline, good post ..

says much. It's logical, i guess, that Christians of whatever flavor, yet all content to live their
lives under an authoritarian and machiavellian God, would be attracted to Putin, and Trump.

Why Russian Protestants Voted for President Putin

Though evangelicals’ freedom has worsened, Putin remains their best, or only, option.

Kate Shellnutt
March 21, 2018 4:27 PM

[...]

“Christian Protestants—Baptists, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists—also regularly face harassment in the press
and pressure from the Russian bureaucratic machine,” the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
wrote in a report released in January, which noted Pentecostals as a particular target under the 2016 legislation.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/march/russia-protestants-president-putin-election.html

I don't know whether or not that article paints an accurate picture.

Have i missed Trump's criticism of Putin in that he is persecuting Christians in Russia? I don't recall Trump saying anything about it at all.