💜 Me too! This community is almost the last refuge for me now. Reddit is overrun with pro- 🇺🇦 shills and anything pro- 🇷🇺 or pro-☭ is censored or banned, and the few Russia-supporting blogs are infested with conservative, feminist-hating religious nutter commenters. The friendliness here is refreshing.

I hate that the Orthodox Church has regained much influence in the government (it is like a recurrent cancer that can't be eradicated), and is indoctrinating a new generation in backwards, ignorant anti-science, conservative nonsense. I despair for those young Russians growing up now who have not experienced Communist education, and have little hope of a new Revolution. There also seems to be a few conservative religious American families moving to Russia for the supposed "traditional values" - such as in this Substack by Friar Joe (and I can't read through all his nonsense without exploding in rage) - and he exemplifies this awful ignorance.