Posted: Apr 23, 2013 9:03 pm
Oeditor wrote:Maybe there's some degree pf parallel with the USSR. They suppressed religion so severely that when the Soviet Union broke up, it resurfaced to the point where Putin is now able to embrace theocracy as a means of controlling dissident young women, among others. Of course, Putin is just doing it cynically, whereas Erdogan looks to be a real theocrat.
It wasn't suppressed as severely as people think and religion never went away in the USSR. There is a lot of it in what used to be the USSR, but it didn't come back, it was always there.