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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Yeah most of the "support" I see for Putin is from the severely irony-poisoned or stupidpol types. Sure, I have very qualified support for their opposition to US imperialism, but I make sure to qualify it when I do.