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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/12/19/pussy-riot-members-freed-from-prison/4123959/
Putin really did this??
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Woo hoo! Pussy Riot is free! (Original Post)
Happyhippychick
Dec 2013
OP
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)1. Be prepared
You're going to get so much grief for your thread title.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)3. Why else would she write it that way?
She could have simply written "Pussy Riot."
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)2. Wait, what? I thought this was a kitten thread!!
lob1
(3,820 posts)7. I thought this was a riot thread!
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)8. This isn't a "woo" thread?
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)10. A kitten riot??
madokie
(51,076 posts)4. Woohoo
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)5. Finally
At least one of them was in a modern equivalent of a gulag
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)6. Fixed
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)9. Wonderful news!
Piers Morgan had the husband and daughter of one of them on last year after the deplorable sentence and I am very happy they will finally be reunited. Hopefully the Greenpeace activists will also be freed very soon.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)11. Pussy Riot's video: "Punk Prayer" (w/English lyrics)
Welcome back, Nadya and Maria!
(Warning, this video may be offensive to some who believe in organized religions)
Virgin birth-giver of God, drive away Putin!
Drive away Putin, drive away Putin!
Black frock, golden epaulettes
Parishioners crawl bowing [toward the priest, during the Eucharist]
Freedom's ghost has gone to heaven
A gay-pride parade has been sent to Siberia in shackles
Their chief saint is the head of the KGB
He leads a convoy of protestors to jail
So as not to insult the Holiest One
Woman should bear children and give love
Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!
Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!
Virgin birth-giver of God, become a feminist!
Become a feminist, become a feminist!
The Church praises rotten leaders
The march of the cross consists of black limousines
A preacher is on his way to your school
Go to class and give him money!
Patriarch Gundyay believes in Putin
Would be better, the bastard, if he believed in God!
The Virgin's belt won't replace political gatherings
The eternal Virgin Mary is with us in our protests!
Virgin birth-Giver of God, drive away Putin!
Drive away Putin, drive away Putin!
What Pussy Riot's 'Punk Prayer' Really Said
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)12. Making nice before the Olympics begin.