Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Brexit to the right 30 6, 8:22pm

@sagas
"I dunno, is Russia a repressive oligarhy run by a KGB mafia man because of Orthodox Christianity?"

In short, yes.
Soviets banned religion, Stalin managed a restart while ensuring that the Russian Orthodox Church would adhere to the will of KGB and Kremlin.

Also the whole "manifest destiny" of Kremlin is to try to become the Third Rome by occupying and colonising and assimilating others and by using orthodox christianity as a tool to that end. Most European medieval states have at some time or another either willfully chosen to take up christianity in order to ensure their own rule, or countries have been conquered in the name of Christ. Kievan Rus chose orthodox for the same reasons. Thus KGB is a natural offshoot from those reasons. It is the holy trinity of Derzhava, repressive security agency and church - has been for more than 1000 years by now.