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To everyone else:
Slavic Culture is Christianity.
Precisely, the East Slavs Orthodox Christianity and the West Slavs Roman Catholicism, with South Slavs split by the two religions. Of course quite a bit of Slavic Culture was suppressed by the Soviet system for quite a while.
George Weigel who is a Catholic intellectual, and Republican by the way, was picked by Pope John Paul II and granted insider status to write his biography. Weigel served as the founding president of the James Madison Foundation (not to be confused with the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation) from 1986 to 1989. In 1994, he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Calling George Weigel a ‘collectivist’ is precisely the kind of uneducated drivel that passes for comment on this forum.
In addition, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is known for his writing that details the consequences of the loss of God in a nation or culture. It is practical writing, spiritual writing, philosophical writing and writing of consequence.
Solzhenitsyn’s writing is prophetic in nature because of the power of the disciplines of philosophy and theology and recognizing the absence of God in a civilization, nation or culture and its attendant effects.