The Ideology of the Russian World

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Vladimir puten has no choice but to work with gidiol. Keril made himself useful to putin by providing this ideology of the russian world that actually substituted the sorbid ideology. Many priests and bishops in the russian church admire stalin. Another part is this monarchical idea, the idea of monarchy. And he believes that he has this special hist cal mission to liberate the world from itself. It's not so much even against ucrane as against the west.

Patriarch Kirill is the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. A former colleague describes him as a one-time anti-Kremlin nonconformist. Now, he’s blessing Russia’s war in Ukraine.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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