With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now “officially godless” and redistributing the church’s gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.

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        My history teacher said that Russians still like Lenin because Russians are naturally disposed to like strong leaders or some racist gibberish like that, rather than, idk, the massive improvements in quality of life.

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            I live on terf island so she dislikes Americans as well but then pulls out the old “America bad but Britain fine for some reason” line