It goes to the split between those who see Russia as different, the Third Rome, the mother of Orthodox and Slavic culture and those who want Russia be more Western and European in outlook.
That’s a debate far from settled and while the collapse of Communism restored Russian statehood, the ultimate question of Russia’s direction remains open.
The conflict right now is between modernized *Stalinism* vs. Judeo-Christian democratic society.
And there is no place for Bolshevik Stalinism in a truly Christian civilization.