According to Zelensky, the Soviet authorities destroyed churches, converted church buildings into bureaucratic offices, and imposed a single “religion” – the Communist Party.
You know that, and I know that, but the average MAGAt doesn’t*. Zelenskyy’s audience is them, specifically the ones who see Putin as a champion of the conservative values they identify with.
* they would know that Godless Communism is Bad, but they’d identify that more with Mamdani and AOC and coastal liberals and solar panels and public health care and queer people with colourful hair than with the Kremlin.
Yes, they did do that. St. Basil’s cathedral in Moscow became a library, IIRC. How is this news?
You know that, and I know that, but the average MAGAt doesn’t*. Zelenskyy’s audience is them, specifically the ones who see Putin as a champion of the conservative values they identify with.
* they would know that Godless Communism is Bad, but they’d identify that more with Mamdani and AOC and coastal liberals and solar panels and public health care and queer people with colourful hair than with the Kremlin.