Somebody left an interesting comment on my Ukrainian YouTube show:
Russian Christianity never relinquished paganism. We can see that, for instance, in the holy icons with the portrait of Stalin, which is absolute blasphemy to any regular Orthodox Christian. The love of totalitarianism is also in that vein because it comes from a need to deify an earthly mortal.
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It’s not so much Russian Christianity that never relinquished paganism, it’s Russian society.
I don’t really believe in such a thing as the “Russian psyche” but I’m always surprised when I hear even well-educated Russians express quite superstitious ideas or concepts of the magical thinking variety.
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Could you give some examples?
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Roman Catholicism never abandoned its Paganism either. We can see that in it’s art from Boticelli through Spanish Baroque, especially in the latter’s S&M fetich in the New World. I don’t understand what you’re actually complaining about here.
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