Yes, in Poland. Communism destroyed Christianity in Russia and it never recovered.
So it’s in our evil leaders best interests to foment an adversarial relationship between Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe
Do you think Poland wants to be free or under Russian control? Why is Finland desperate to join NATO? Its simple, Eastern European countries want to be free from Russian tyranny, and not because of some plot by "our evil leaders". Russia unfortunately has not grown out of its imperialistic phase and by invading Georgia and Ukraine, Russia has shown that they are a rogue nation.
But if you think it’s all about toilets, then to each his own!
Right, nobody in the world cares about their own quality of life. Including you, right?
I think Russia has been repeatedly provoked by US/EU. I don’t believe Russia wants to control Eastern Europe.
It’s our leaders that want an antagonistic relationship between Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe.
The motivation is to neutralize the resurgence of Christianity and ethno/nationalism in that part of the world, after Western Europe happily abandoned both of these things.
And while the Soviet leaders had a 30 year head start on suppressing religion in Russia, versus the rest of Eastern Europe, there has been a resurgence of Christianity in Russia since fall of Iron Curtain...... for starters, they aint calling it Leningrad and Stalingrad anymore.
So I don’t see it as an either/or choice between Eastern Europe aligning itself with either US/EU or Russia.
But if you can’t see any connection between how our leaders frown upon the religiosity of Eastern Europe, and our hypocritical stance towards China versus Russia, then I guess you’re allergic to pattern recognition.