What Putin’s “Holy War” Is Really Hiding

Putin’s “holy war” is theater. How the Kremlin captured faith and turned it into an empire.

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Many outsiders read Putin’s religious imagery as conviction: candles, icons, priests, “traditional values.” But in Russia, religion survives on the state’s terms. In this episode, author Elvira Bary breaks down the mechanism: how the Kremlin uses Orthodoxy as a political asset, why Russian rulers never tolerate an independent church, how “faith” becomes a loyalty system in uniform, and how the Ukraine split proved power matters more than theology. This isn’t a holy war. It’s empire wearing incense.

Video Chapters:

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03:40 The Holy Mask
06:27 The State’s God
09:50 Useful Orthodoxy
12:31 Faith in Uniform
15:38 God for Empire
18:45 The Broken Cross
20:13 Prince of the Soviets
22:28 Candles and Magic

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