Russia says it’s U.S.
At the height of the Cold
War, it was common for American conservatives to label the officially atheist Soviet Union a
“godless nation.”
More than two decades on,
history has come full circle, as the Kremlin and its allies in the Russian
Orthodox Church hurl the same allegation at the West.
“Many Euro-Atlantic
countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values,” Russian
President Vladimir
Putin said in a recent keynote speech. “Policies are being pursued that
place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith
in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
In his state of the
nation address in mid-December, Mr. Putin also
portrayed Russia as
a staunch defender of “traditional values” against what he depicted as the
morally bankrupt West. Social and religious conservatism, the former KGB officer insisted, is
the only way to prevent the world from slipping into “chaotic darkness.”
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