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.
The US meddled in the Russian election of 1996 to put the drunken, corrupt Yeltsin back in office. The results were horrific. Deaths approached wartime levels. Putin deposed him and put an end to western neo-liberals in the Kremlin administering shock therapy. I ain't saying he's a good guy...but sheesh Donald Trump would look like an improvement after the utter catastrophe of 1991-1999.