Ukrainian city demolishes monument to Russian general who beat Napoleon.

[JackRiddler]

14. Not such a big factor.

A lot of them were "12 Gods" followers. They had a split over this. Their current support for Orthodoxy is a tactical move, they know it's more popular. The real religion of G.D. is their nationalism and race superiority. The essence of them, however, is macho gangsterism. They want power by any means, power for power's sake, because it's such a thrill to exercise it. Their belief is in the strong dominating the weak. Serious psychosexual issues; they're like a textbook illustration of fascism as Wilhelm Reich understood it (though this isn't true of all fascism at all times). They're very obsessed with homophobia, of course.

By the way, their ideology is explicitly Nazi -- in favor of National Socialism as it arose in Germany -- so calling them that is not a metaphor or an exaggeration.

But maybe you have a point - worth researching. Western Ukraine is largely Greek Catholic (which isn't very much Catholic but recognizes the Pope) as opposed to Russian Orthodox (which is actually more "Greek&quot .