'In Ukraine, even in wartime conditions, they are holding gay parades to show that they share Western values,' Archpriest Svyatoslav Churkanov said.
It's not just priests who are fighting an ideology-based battle.
"Russia will never be defeated as long as more than half of Russians are Orthodox," Astakhov told AFP.Andrei Kordochkin is an Orthodox priest now based in Madrid who was one of 300 priests who previously signed an open letter urging authorities to end the"fratricidal war" in Ukraine.that Russian officials are repeating similar language as that used during the Middle Ages, which Pope Urban referenced to bless the Crusades.
"I think it has become common for the Kremlin to blame others/the West for what the Russian ruling elite is practicing itself," Troitskiy said."It is an open secret, for example, that a large number of members of that elite are gay. And these are exactly the people who go on the record lambasting the 'Western gay and satanic culture.'
It's difficult to gauge how many Russians actually believe the rhetoric, Troitskiy said, due to continually falsified public polling. However, it remains an alarming narrative among those who are beholden to Putin and Russian propaganda.
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