Odd, how the atheist and totalitarian Soviet Union did a 180 into freedom and preservation of its culture, and how the United States did a 180 away from freedom and its own traditions.
Because all the commie reporters are here.
Many of their more problematic citizens immigrated.
Russia is surely an enigma. I still remember listening to my (now deceased)uncle who fought in Russia when he was in the German army. In all the long years his unit fought in the Soviet Union he could not remember one church that had not been desecrated by the Soviet authorities. Normally the buildings would be turned into schools, barns or NKVD headquarters. Amazingly, one of the first things some German units did when entering a town or village was to reopen these churches-not because the German authorities wanted it but because certain officers in combat divisions saw it as a means of placating the Russians or Ukrainians.