As Orthodox priests exclaim in such cases during services conducted in Russian.
There is simply nothing else you can exclaim here. Assuming, of course, that you went to school.
Do you think this comes from some collection of “hilarious mistakes in term papers by vocational school students”?
Not at all. This is from the doctoral dissertation of Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky.
As Ivan Babitsky, who is calling for the minister to be stripped of his degree, rightly writes: the usual reaction to excerpts from the dissertation is, “This isn’t a joke, is it?”, “I don’t believe it!”, “This can’t be real!”
And yet it’s true: this guy became a Doctor of Historical Sciences with this work.
Do you get it, damn it? Protestants do everything in Latin, while the Orthodox do it in Russian.
This pillar of Putin-era spirituality, it seems, has simply never set foot in a church in his life.
And of course it is deeply humiliating for the whole country that such a semi-literate clown can be not only a holder of a doctoral degree, but also a government minister in Russia. And Minister of Culture, no less. A disgrace.
I hope he is stripped of his degree. The review of the petition to do so will take place tomorrow (I recommend reading the text of the petition at the link — it’s quite a spectacle). This is not about Medinsky personally; the degree needs to be revoked in order to lift the disgrace from all the other Doctors of Historical Sciences in the country.
After all, we do have some competent Doctors of Historical Sciences, don’t we?