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Too many political conservatives have made the assumption that because Putin makes the sign of the cross publicly and embraces Orthodox bishops, he is a Christian. He and his associates were born and raised in the Communist system. Lenin still remains in his tomb in Red Square and the Russian Army embraces the Soviet tradition. Yes, Russia is more culturally conservative than the Western democracies. But so were the Soviet Union and the other Communist nations. Homosexuality was regarded as bourgeois decadence and was severely punished. The Communist system imposed by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and others was economic socialism and atheism. The leftism of the Western democracies was directed by the disciples of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School. It is cultural Marxism more than economic Marxism and militant atheism. Destruction of the social fabric is the goal of American and Western European leftism. Because the Putin regime is socially conservative, many religious conservatives assume Russia shares the same values as older Western society.