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.

  • Soselo [any]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Thinking about muricans worshiping people who hadnd't improved the common peoples lives :thonk:

      • Soselo [any]
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        4 years ago

        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

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        US Americans worship leaders like Jefferson and Washington to a degree that is beyond what most Europeans worshiped their kings and queens. Literally 2 minutes ago I was driving on Jefferson Street and turned onto Madison Street.