And Stalin, after killing off (purging) most of his senior officers before WWII, and the USSR getting its butt kicked in the early part of the war, rallied Russian patriotism around Orthodoxy. rasPutin is doing the same thing today.
Stalin “ rallied Russian patriotism around Orthodoxy. rasPutin is doing the same thing today.”
Stalins Western Allies - the US and UK - did the same thing. Churchill and FDR sang hymns together and Churchill said the war was a fight for “ Christian civilization”