BEHOLD PUTIN'S GLORIOUS CHURCH MAKE GREAT CRUSADE AGAINST SATANISM
This little mosaic features Russian defence minister Shoigu and russian President Putin on the interior of his 100 million dollar cathedral. It is worth noting for all his talk about fighting the satanic forces of the west, Putin is quite the faithful satanic Larper himself
The floor is made of melted down German tanks from WWII and I cannot stress enough just how grimdark and aesthetic the merging of gothic imagery with soviet dieselwave produces absolutely kino design. This shit looks more pagan and satanic than actual satanic temples. I would rate it highly if it was not, as before, a cynical blasphemy built on human sacrifice to Moloch and Mars
The church is intentionally designed to look like an assortment of missiles and artillery shells. JESUS LOVES ARTILLERY
In its own way this grandiloquent structure does a good job of accurately representing Putin's legacy. A Christian church that glorifies war, dictatorship and wealth. What a surefire way to counter western satanism
Replica Reichstag for the kiddies to overrun and capture. That is the nazi flag waving at the top. It's intended for members of Russian scout groups to storm the building, tear down the nazi flag and put up the soviet one. Fairly poetic having the Russians make fake nazis for their children to attack, got to keep some traditions alive somehow right?
It cost $100,000,000 to make this eldritch heresy. Once again, it'd be pretty cool if it wasn't made out of blood money and human sacrifice
The attempt to elevate Russian cabinet ministers to the levels of saints is like something out of Byzantine Imperial politics. Props to the Russian government for their sick roleplay skills
Members of the Russian military getting funky in funkytown. You can definitely tell this was high priority on Putin's anti-NATO preparations
Of course the cathedral venerates Stalin, who liquidated (killed) over 20,000,000 Christians and 100,000 clergymen. Truly the greatest saint of all
The usage of artillery shells as a theme everywhere really scores home the "we blew all our taxpayer money on a 40k fanfic so we no longer have funds to pay the families of dead conscripts." All in all, nice building. Just a shame it's a church for the blood god, as Russian people did not need another tribute to the skull throne
Section to the Crimean War (the one in the 19th century)
Another example of pretty ingenious design. It's cool for example that the top mosaic forms the St. George's cross but it is just weird to have a shrine dedicated to military victory in a church. Making a giant temple shaped like missiles and artillery, painted in military shades of green and tan, decorated with shells and flooring forged from the metals of your defeated enemies sounds like something a Roman Emperor would do when building a temple of Mars.
They left enough space to cast down two Japanese flags, five German banners, but not a single Italian flag
Italians mogged again
Imperial Russian troops fighting against the Swedish in the great northern war
Note on the right a Ukrainian flag
One of the claimed origins of the blue-yellow Ukrainian flag dates back to some Ukrainian cossacks allied with the Swedes. The allied cossacks fought under a blue-yellow banner, and the irony seems not to have been lost on the mosaic makers to make it seem like Ukraine has been an enemy of Russia for 300 years.
Also fun joke: When a nordic or anglo country says you are a brother nation it means happy things and fun sports and entertainment events in your future. When China or Russia says you are a brother nation you are in for dark times ahead. The reason for this is because the Russian and Chinese government are team killing fuckheads and so if they think you are on their team they naturally feel the urge to teamkill you
Mixing together orthodox religious imagery with communist imagery from the regime that tried to kill Christianity is a weird mood. But it perfectly represents Putin's Russia. A military church that does not commemorate all the non-Russians who died for Russia, nor even the Russians who died for Russia. It commemorates Russian power, Russian victories in Crimea and WWII. It erases Russia's defeats whilst glorifying conquest, it celebrates politicians and murderers whilst being the living embodiment of a cult of personality and a monument of sin
Because turning Russia into hell on earth is all part of the great plan to fight satanism don't worry
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