First time I’ve seen someone openly play the “Christian Russia” piece. I guess it’s a given as it parallels with terminal Caucasian culture, but I don’t run into many exceptionalists coming out and saying it.
Russian Orthodox a de facto state religion. Catholicism disallowed from operating institutionally as it does elsewhere in the world. Smaller previous Protestants sects not allowed to claim the benefits and privileges the Orthos enjoy.
Russia essentially exported it’s Judaism element to Israel after the fall of the USSR and as a pack they have played a huge part in Israel’s hard turn to the Apartheid tinged far right.
I’m guessing that where you are coming from is that non-Christians are by default atheists. The WELS kids I went to high school with believed that as do a good number of my CRC relatives by marriage. Funny thing, some of them are showing up among the throng on social media with suggestions of nationalist revolution.
