While millions of people were mourning the boys and girls who died the day before in Kerch, their «national leader» staged a trash comedy at the so-called Valdai Club. He claimed that in the event of a nuclear war, the inhabitants of Russia would go to heaven as martyrs, while their opponents would simply die. Of course, Putin’s recent behavior requires comments from psychiatrists and andrologists rather than political analysts and journalists.
However, many people were interested in which religious system the patient belongs to, where some go to heaven (regardless of their faith or good and sinful deeds) and others, like Catholics, do not go to hell or purgatory, but simply «die». We will return to this question a little later, but for now let us doubt that Putin himself believes what he says, because the Chekists say one thing, think another, and imply a third. Already in 2012, he refused heaven for the sake of the motherland, explaining the work of the atheist drunkard Esenin: «If the Holy Army calls — leave Russia, live in heaven, I will say: I don’t need heaven — give me my motherland!»
Furthermore, in 2016 he said that the Communist Builder’s Code is the same as the Bible and the Quran (astaghfirullah) and compared Lenin’s corpse in the mausoleum with the revered Orthodox relics in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the Pskov Monastery and Mount Athos. Already this year, many noticed that when he takes a dive, he does not cross himself as the Orthodox do, but with a triangle. And in 2014, he crossed himself not only from left to right, as Catholics do, but also with his left hand, as Satanists usually do in their rituals.
All this raises the logical question — what religion does the head of the «spiritual bond» and «traditional values» state adhere to, if he does not cross himself like the Orthodox and holds views on the afterlife that are far from Orthodoxy? In particular, some commentators have pointed out that the view that some people go to heaven after death while others «just die» is inherent in some branches of Judaism, but not in Christians or Muslims. However, in the nominally secular state that modern Russia is (in reality, it is a fake, hybrid secularity and religiosity), the religious beliefs of the head of state could be exclusively his personal affair.
If not for one «but» — instead of fulfilling his official duties and solving the problems of his citizens, lately they are increasingly being influenced towards «martyrdom», encouraging them that they will go to heaven, while others will simply die. In this respect, the evolution of the rhetoric of the ruling powers in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia is characteristic: from the promise of communism to the next generation of Soviet people under Khrushchev, to the promise of a separate apartment for every Soviet family under Gorbachev, to the promise of martyrdom and heaven under Putin.
However, as the citizens of Russia already know from the actual increase in the retirement age that he promised not to allow while in power, how well Putin keeps his promises. So, as commentators have aptly noted, «He fooled us with pensions, he will fool us with heaven.»