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.
Idk why this made me think of this but my cousin was saying Russians definitely had a secret eugenics program because they thought it would be funny if the entire country was hot women and dopey looking dudes.
I mean, it would be cool but eugenics aint cool