No, only oppressive dictators who magically become devout defenders of the faith when it becomes politically convenient. None of these guys were Christian until they needed to portray themselves as traditional, Christian heroes of the nation. In other words, a personality cult tailored for the nation.
No real Christian would have done the things Putin has done, ranging from the killing and torture of opposition journalists to the mass killings in Chechnya. Remember Sergei Magnitsky. Remember Anna Politkovskaya.
“You soundlike you would have been a fan of Mussolini and Franco too, had you lived in the 1930s.”
It sounds to me like your logic is completely broken.
Wow, Putin built a church, and advocated a Christian value.
Mussolini! Franco!
So every leader who builds a church and says something good about Christian values is a Mussolini or Franco.
That’s retarded.
Of course you don’t make this comparison for the leaders who don’t even try to do anything Christian.
Oh yeah, and going in to Chechnya makes him a monster?
Russia backed off of Chechnya for years, leaving them with defacto independence. The people voted in a taliban government with kidnapping as the national industry, used it as a launching ground for further attacks into Russian provinces like Dagestan and terrorist attacks in Moscow.
I really doubt any leader would have done differently on the issue.