💜 Me too! This community is almost the last refuge for me now. Reddit is overrun with pro- 🇺🇦 shills and anything pro- 🇷🇺 or pro-☭ is censored or banned, and the few Russia-supporting blogs are infested with conservative, feminist-hating religious nutter commenters. The friendliness here is refreshing.

I hate that the Orthodox Church has regained much influence in the government (it is like a recurrent cancer that can’t be eradicated), and is indoctrinating a new generation in backwards, ignorant anti-science, conservative nonsense. I despair for those young Russians growing up now who have not experienced Communist education, and have little hope of a new Revolution. There also seems to be a few conservative religious American families moving to Russia for the supposed “traditional values” - such as in this Substack by Friar Joe (and I can’t read through all his nonsense without exploding in rage) - and he exemplifies this awful ignorance.

I came across this series of documentaries on YouTube (in Russian) - not sure if it is the same film mentioned (they are listed under the same name, “Красный проект”), but they are on the topic of the USSR. No formal English subtitles, but YouTube can generate approximate translations (click CC - enable Closed Captions - then Settings > Auto-translate and pick the language).