Thanks for your posting.
Wonderful teaching on Dostoyevski. Especially at that time in 1956 when, spurred on by the Voice of America, Hungary made a bid for its freedom … driving the Russians out … only to wait for the American troops to back them up and insure their hard won freedom.
Troops that never came. And Russia re-invaded them, put them firmly behind the Iron Curtain, and persecuted the Catholic Church. Blessed be Cardinal Mindzenty.
Atheistic Communism is at its base a Satanic concoction.
Ephesians 6:10 (
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__P10D.HTM#$4MB)
10 Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.
11 Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.
12 For
our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness,
with the evil spirits in the heavens.
13 Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.
(St.) Fulton Sheen made me shiver with his descriptions of what Dostoyevski went through in prison and in Siberia.
May God’s JUSTICE grant all souls who have needlessly suffered such things at the hands of evil be granted His eternal Mercy as well.
Countries that fall to Communism often fall suddenly. Followed by many miseries for most of the then enslaved “masses” … equal … in their miseries … while the slavemasters luxuriate in “honors” that border worship.
And neatly fill the worship hole left by the casting out of God. 50 foot posters of their likenesses glare down on the masses while they live. Parades and glass entombment when they are the “honored dead” … in imitation of the Lord’s incorruptible saints.
Hopefully Dostoyevski’s mid 1800s books were more prophetic in their accuracy … than a handbook for evil that some of the later Communist dictators used as a template to power.
