I think there’s a difference, however. The Russian Orthodox Church was anti-Bolshevist even if some priests and bishops co-operated with them out of fear. The German Protestants I’m talking about actually AGREED with Hitler and WANTED to serve Nazism.
It is one thing to be patriotic. Quite another to seek the extermination of people. You want to use the exceptions to condemn the whole. That is the fallacy of emphasis--emphasising a small part and ignoring the rest. You haven't mentioned anything about those Lutherans who were very much opposed to Hitler. Some of them ended up executed by the state.
We in America take democratic institutions for granted. But those institutions were only beginning in Germany after WWI. The roots were not very deep. And the Nazis easily ripped them out of the ground.
Russia has no history of democratic institutions. There was an attempt after the collapse of the Soviet Union to establish those institutions. But the jury is still out. Will Russia go back to its long history of autocratic rule and dictatorship? I think it is too early to say.