If anyone was looking for a clash of civilizations, they might check out Pavlova’s definition of “Russian fundamentalism” and note that it could also describe categories of “American fundamentalism.”
On her blog, Irina constantly stops people who try to compare Putin to Trump.
America’s bedrock values are WAY different from the fundamentalism Putin espouses.
In addition to pointing out that Pavlova (in her blog) makes sure people don’t try to compare Trump’s “MAGA” agenda to Putin’s fundamentalism,
I want to stress that what soulless-ness there is in the modern West — we can attribute MUCH to the infiltration and spreading of Soviet and Soviet-sympathizing ideologies that continue to permeate the leftist and secular movements of today...Continuing to plague our societal institutions now. Especially academia.
No matter how many anti-gay laws Russia uses to distract from the reality, Putin has overseen the entrenchment of nostalgia for the Soviet Union and the worst excesses of Tsarist empire as well.
A lot of Russia’s ideological problems stem form its development: the country always ended up adopting the worst of Europe (while America adopted the best and did away with the worst.) —whether it’s models of aristocratic tyranny, Marxism — they got their cues from the West indeed.
And the Russian Orthodox Church, while filled with much promise and treasures of the Spirit, has not reformed at crucial junctures in history and often ends up as a “handmaiden” of a brutal, corrupt State.