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230. Russia, Ukraine, and the West | Frederick Kagan

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Relationship Between Church and State in Russia

The degree to which Russia rightly regards itself as an autonomous community independent of the West. The relative autonomy of the Orthodox Church is at the bottom of that question. And one of the things that also is a mystery to me in relationship to that is that you can trace a fairly clear line of development of democratic thought in the West proper to Protestantism and Christianity. But there wasn't a development into a democratic polity in the same way there was, especially in Northern Europe.

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