<![CDATA[Great Normalization]]>https://www.greatnormalization.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oqul!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30aa0194-2760-4875-9349-80dc7aebd277_1024x1024.pngGreat Normalizationhttps://www.greatnormalization.comSubstackSat, 23 May 2026 17:04:58 GMT<![CDATA[Significance of Christianity for England]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/significance-of-christianity-forhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/significance-of-christianity-forSun, 05 Oct 2025 18:51:23 GMTHope for English restoration from the damage done by the global leftist cabal is one of the key themes of this publication. I wrote about how my connection to England was strengthened by going to an English church. Later, I reflected on the lack of support from the Church of England (C of E) to the current popular movement, in particular, the Unite the …

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]]><![CDATA[Reflections on the state of England, September 2025]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/reflections-on-the-state-of-englandhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/reflections-on-the-state-of-englandTue, 30 Sep 2025 06:35:24 GMTEarlier this year, I tried to articulate why I cared about the fate of England. Whether this great, but now severely diminished nation, pulls off its restoration in the face of global leftism, is one of the key themes of this publication.

There are clear developments in the right direction. The Labour and Conservative parties, the former actively and the…

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]]><![CDATA[Georgian Dream's pathetic mimicry]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/the-pathetic-mimicry-of-georgianhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/the-pathetic-mimicry-of-georgianSat, 20 Sep 2025 05:48:49 GMTConservative Political Action Conference of Hungary has extended invitations to the heads of Georgian government in the last several years. Prime minister Gharibashvili made a speech there in 2023 and prime minister Kobakhidze - in 2024 and 2025. They both belong to Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, which has enjoyed Viktor Orbán’s steadfast suppo…

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]]><![CDATA[Moral Equivalence propaganda during Cold War and now]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/anti-western-weapon-of-moral-equivalencehttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/anti-western-weapon-of-moral-equivalenceMon, 09 Jun 2025 14:15:25 GMTMost thoughtful people with some interest in and knowledge about the Cold War era know that Soviet propaganda effectively employed moral equivalence as a strategic tool to undermine Western democracies, particularly, the United States. The present Russian regime has adapted and applied this method in pursuit of its geopolitical interests.

The Cold War e…

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]]><![CDATA[Understanding secularism]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/understanding-secularismhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/understanding-secularismFri, 23 May 2025 16:35:31 GMTIn July 2017, Georgian prime-minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, during a visit to a religious site, made the following statement:

Georgian Church possesses immense strength and it is due to this strength that our nation managed to survive and keep its identity throughout centuries. Even though State and Church are nowadays independent of each other, secular…

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]]><![CDATA[Thinking beyond primitive messages]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/thinking-beyond-primitive-messageshttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/thinking-beyond-primitive-messagesSat, 10 May 2025 08:01:39 GMTThe following words of Scott Fitzgerald are incredibly relevant today:

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

This applies to the current battle of ideas and values in the Western world, generally, and also happens to be pertinent in my home cou…

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]]><![CDATA[Understanding liberal Democracy]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/liberal-democracyhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/liberal-democracyMon, 21 Apr 2025 19:45:45 GMTIt took me long to understand what Liberal Democracy really is. Initially, it sounded to me like a logical system - for democracy to truly function, there needed to be liberties in the society, such as the rights to free speech. Otherwise, for example, if a political party had no freedom to campaign freely for its beliefs and goals, how would it stand a…

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]]><![CDATA[Why I care about England]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/why-i-care-about-englandhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/why-i-care-about-englandSat, 05 Apr 2025 05:31:45 GMTAs I was a kid, growing up in the Soviet Union, my father instilled in me the faith that our country would eventually break free from the dual bondage - that of Marxism-Leninism and the national subjugation by Moscow. To elaborate on the meaning of “free”, he used to use England as the prime example, both in terms of national sovereignty and individual …

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]]><![CDATA[National movement or intersectional mob?]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/copy-national-movement-or-an-intersectionalhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/copy-national-movement-or-an-intersectionalSat, 28 Dec 2024 19:02:08 GMTAs Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), has been openly steering the country away from the West into the Sino-Russian geopolitical universe, street protests have become a common occurrence in Tbilisi. The latest wave of unrest started as GD passed the so-called “Foreign Agents Law”, a.k.a. “Russian Law”, targeted at foreign-funded NGOs, earlier …

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]]><![CDATA[Why there is no credible pro-Western opposition in Georgia]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/why-there-is-no-credible-pro-westernhttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/why-there-is-no-credible-pro-westernSat, 21 Dec 2024 11:14:47 GMTPretty much everybody in Georgia and its supporters abroad agree that there has been no credible and effective opposition to the country’s ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD). This became obvious one more time in the October 2024 parliamentary elections where, even acknowledging all the electoral manipulations by GD, the four “pro-Western” parties receive…

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]]><![CDATA[Between a rock and a hard place]]>https://www.greatnormalization.com/p/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-placehttps://www.greatnormalization.com/p/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-placeFri, 08 Mar 2024 07:44:27 GMTI was a teenager when the Soviet Union broke up and my country declared independence. I was enormously happy, as since my tender age, I’d been conscious of the rottenness of the system I’d lived in.

I was lucky to grow up in a family with a strong cultural heritage and the will to instil in me a sound worldview, contrary to the prevailing Soviet brainwa…

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