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[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not ex-USSR, but yes

Edit: in my country when I was growing up, the common perspective was simple: there are two main religions - Christian Orthodox and Catholic. All other Christian denominations were "sectarians". Non-Christian religions were not even considered, those were "pagans".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I was born in Tatarstan. For us, the division was Christian or Muslim. "Christian" was assumed to be Orthodox, but Catholics were considered to just be a kinda weird foreign flavour of Christianity. Pretty much everyone else made their presence known by proselytizing, and thus earned the title of sectarian for being a crazy evangelist (a chill immigrant who happens to be a Buddhist or Anglican doesn't really talk much about their religion, so thus the only small religions you notice are the ones headed by people who don't mind their own business).

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