yes indeed, russia is contending with two pseudomorphoses and will have to overcome them, but that takes times. even christianity is a foreign notion to russia at the fundamental level of the russian character, since christianity is an invention of magian civilization of the middle east, which also spun off judaism (in its early days like 500 bc) and islam, in its final form.  russia is slowly breaking free to express itself. and part of self-expression is gaining self-knowledge. the animating idea of a culture is opaque even to that culture. it takes time to clarify it and put it out there to make a mark on the world.
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