Sadly, there ARE some Christian theologians who have written or taught what amount to communist ideology...
(such as...those that thought that private property should be burdened by a ‘social welfare’ requirement... whereby the Church hierarchy would have the power to require you to give your property to the church or other “more needy” people OUTRIGHT ...or....that the church hierarchy should be permitted to require you to let other people use your property (whether your home or land or money or other stuff).
While NOT Biblical, there have been such ‘teachings’ by some church fathers, popes, etc.
so Putin is not entirely off his gourd ... alas!
(Plus, there are some folks who believe that communism was largely a scheme hatched by SOME within the RC Church to suppress Orthodoxy...I am not advancing that POV, just noting it since it seems possibly related here?). No flames please! thank you thank you
Do you know how much beef the Russian government has been giving the Polish, the Baltic states, and Ukraine for tearing down their THOUSANDS of Lenin statues and ugly Soviet monuments?
Do you know that Stalin’s popularity in Russia has tripled since the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s and numerous busts and statues of his have been erected in the past five years alone? (Especially around the time of the Crimea annexation.)
Do you know that average Russians today refuse to concede that the Cold War was ever lost or even ended?
Do you know how much the Russians resent Americans taking any credit for World War II?
Yeah. You should go there. Its perfectly safe, beautiful, and friendly — but the more you dig in, you realize the Soviet psyche is as strong as ever even among so-called Christians.