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Friday, June 26, 2026

It's been a busy few days for a formerly obscure Russian blogger and veteran of Moscow's war on Ukraine who calls himself Aleksandr Lunin.

On June 25, he posted a video in Instagram in which he described what he called widespread torture of soldiers in the war zone by their own officers and demanded a live, on-air meeting with President Vladimir Putin and warned that if it did not take place soon, "the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin."


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You can go to about 10 min 30 secs in here for translated version of his post:

www.youtube.com

Apparently he later backed off a bit.

"The episode came amid growing signs of fatigue among Russians over the war, which Western intelligence agencies estimate has killed more than half a million Russian soldiers.

In the video posted on social media on June 25, Lunin asserted that "dozens, hundreds, thousands of our soldiers are rotting in [pits], thrown there by their own commanders.

"Just sitting, rotting, being tortured and abused by what their own ranks call the Gestapo. Why? For refusing to follow idiotic, suicidal orders. For refusing to hand over their own money. And in the end they are zeroed out, listed as missing in action."

In the June 26 post he said that he has received "thousands of messages, with video confirmation" of abuse.

- intellectual arguments don't sell in the public marketplace.

The current public marketplace in this country has been intentionally dumbed down and underpaid so as to make them pliable rwing voters.

Wright and John Lennox sell 100,000s of thousands of books around the world, though; Wright's New Testament translation is highly regarded:

www.google.com

And atheists (and agnostics) have likable intellectuals like Alex O'Conner (More Alex O'Conner on yt), who are unlike the former Edgy Atheists that teed off intellectual atheists like Brian Appleyard:

www.google.com

Wright is significant in this country, beyond his scholarship world wide, in that he has introduced modern American Protestants to some lost concepts, including that the Rapture isn't what most rwingers think it is; an old book and movie called Left Behind.

And that, among other things, a 'soul' going to 'Heaven' at death is Plato, not Jesus, who taught New Creation, ie; Heaven on Earth.

These are disturbing concepts for White Nationalist Evangels.

"I Ran Across the Grand Canyon... TWICE in One Day (R2R2R)

Eva zu Beck
Jun 26, 2026"

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(she has her own channel, and also Produces and Hosts National Geo vids)

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