By now all of us are aware of the moves in Russia to ban the Organization and the frantic letter writing campaign started by the Governing Body.
However, what I thought was interesting and perhaps not already mentioned, is the fact that Governing Body themselves may have actually created this very situation. Due of their personal greed to seize the Brotherhood's saved congregational accounts and the ownership of the Publisher funded Kingdom Halls through the centralizing of those assets into the Watchtower corporation (which I'm sure has taken place in Russia too), the ability for Putin to take the lot has only been made it easier. However if the Governing Body had left the ownership of the halls at the local level, I expect that the best the Russian government could do would be to have them closed and then start the much longer court process of taking them one by one.
And if anyone has any delusions in thinking that a ton of letters will in some way convince Putin to change his mind; think again. Putin does not care about world opinion. He didn't care in 2008 when he ordered the invasion of Georgia. Nor did he worry about it in 2014 when he took the Crimea . And he's not bothered about his puppet regime using chlorine fill barrel bombs killing women and children in Syria.
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