Sunday, September 12, 2021

Putin unveils monument to legendary Russia prince AND REVISIONIST GREAT RUSSIAN HISTORY

Issued on: 11/09/2021 -
Russian President Vladimir Putin lights a candle unveiling a 50-tonne monument to legendary Russian medieval prince Alexander Nevsky 
Alexey DRUZHININ SPUTNIK/AFP

Moscow (AFP)

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday unveiled a huge monument to legendary medieval prince Alexander Nevsky as he praised a "strong" Russia ahead of parliamentary polls.

Soviet and Russian authorities have for decades lauded the 13th century prince for halting the eastward expansion of the Swedes and Germans and his image has often been used for propaganda purposes.

Accompanied by Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, and top officials, the Russian leader unveiled a 50-tonne monument to the prince and his warriors on the shores of Chudskoe Lake, on the northwestern border with EU member Estonia.

Putin praised the prince for his victory over the Teutonic Knights on the ice-bound lake in 1242, saying he was a symbol of patriotism and devotion to the Motherland.

"This victory became decisive, halted the advance of enemies and showed everyone in the west and the east that the strength of Russia is not broken and the Russian land has people who are ready to fight for it," Putin said.

The legacy of Russian medieval prince Alexander Nevsky was a 'strong, centralised Russian state created by his descendants', President Putin said
 Alexey DRUZHININ SPUTNIK/AFP

The figure of the prince has supported and inspired Russians in times of war and peace, Putin added.

He described Alexander Nevsky's legacy as a "strong, centralised Russian state created by his descendants."

Also present at the ceremony was Metropolitan Tikhon, widely described as Putin's spiritual advisor.

The epic "Battle on the Ice" is the focus of Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film, Alexander Nevsky, created under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

SYMPHONY 7 LENINGRAD BY SHOSTAKOVICH WAS CREATED UNDER STALIN, 
SO WAS PROKOFIEV'S LT KEJI , AND RUSSIA WOULD BE FIGHTING FOR ITS LIFE AGAINST THE NAZI'S WHOM 'THEY' DEFEATED UNDER STALIN

Russia holds parliamentary elections on September 17-19, with nearly all vocal Kremlin critics barred from running and the ruling United Russia floundering in the polls.

ELECTIONS DO NOT MAKE A DEMOCRACY 
NOR DOES A PARLIAMENT 
THANK YOU FOR PROVING THAT COMRADE

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Alexander Nevsky - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky

Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky served as Prince of Novgorod (1236–40, 1241–56 and 1258-1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1236–52) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–63) during some of the most difficult times in Kievan Rus' history. Commonly regarded as a key figure of medieval Rus', Alexander was a grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victo…

From Tales of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander found in the Second Pskovian Chronicle, circa 1260–1280, comes one of the first known references to the Great Prince:

"By the will of God, prince Alexander was born from the charitable, people-loving, and meek the Great Prince Yaroslav, and his mother was Theodosia. As it was told


  1. Alexander Nevsky (film) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(film)

    Alexander Nevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Не́вский) is a 1938 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It depicts the attempted invasion of Novgorod in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire and their defeat by Prince Alexander, known popularly as Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263).
    Eisenstein made the film in association with Dmitri Vasilyev and with a script co-written with Pyotr Pavlen…

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  2. Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrinus_expectavi_pedes_meos_in_cymbalis

    The score was Prokofiev's third for a film, following Lieutenant Kijé (1934) and The Queen of Spades (1936). Prokofiev was heavily involved not just with the composition, but with the recording as well. He experimented with different microphone distances in order to achieve the desired sound. Horns meant to represent the Teutonic Knights, for instance, were played close enough to the microphones to produce a crackling, distorted sound. The brassand choral groups were recorded in different studios and the separa…

  • Seguéi Eisenstein: "Alexander Nevsky" (1938) : Free ...

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