By Professor A. N. Maltsev (Malsteiff) & Professor Aelithea I. Rook

In Russia today, as in the darkest folds of medieval Europe, religion is no longer the balm for the soul—it is the leash.

The Putinist system, draped in the smoke of incense and shadow of cathedral domes, has resurrected a charist-style theological bondage:

God gave you your ruler. God gave you your country. To serve them is to serve Him.

But this is not Christ’s gospel.
This is a state-forged gospel, rewritten by a cabal that seeks not salvation—but subjugation.

The God of Hierarchy, Not Love

Philosopher Pavel Schelin, often quoted by Kremlin theologians, exemplifies this distorted doctrine.
In his interpretation, the vertical is divine, not because it connects man to God—but because it binds him downward, to power, to soil, to flag.

Gone is:

“Love the Lord thy God… and thy neighbor as thyself.”

In its place:

“Love thy nation. Obey thy ruler. God commands it.”

This theology is not for spiritual elevation—it is political gravity in the robes of sainthood.

“You Deserve Your Ruler” – The Fatal Justification

This phrase—whispered like prophecy—is the ultimate absolution of tyranny:

“You deserve him. God sent him. To resist is to blaspheme.”

It kills both conscience and courage.

It tells the beaten that they were meant to be beaten—that their suffering is not injustice, but divine order.

The Return of Medieval Obedience

This is not a modern Russia. This is a sanctified feudalism.
A place where:

  • State is sacred
  • Leaders are lords by divine decree
  • Citizens are sinners if they question, and saints if they serve

It is a doctrine not of redemption, but of resignation.

The True Gospel Rejected

The gospel of Christ said:

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

But under Putin’s theologians, truth is treason.
Freedom is arrogance.
And love—real, human, tender love for neighbor—is diluted into nationalism and obedience.

Visual Commentary: Saints and the Slavery of Souls

This image is not a condemnation of sanctity itself—but of state-sanctioned sanctity, handpicked and polished to serve empire, not God.

The figures evoke the Russian saints of the 18th and 19th centuries, whose teachings—at least those canonized and promoted by the state—often aligned not with liberation, but submission.

Their halos glow, their faces are serene, but their silence is thunderous.
Not all saints were agents of control—some truly lived and died for love, truth, and justice.
But those approved, iconized, and institutionalized became tools in a theology of obedience.

They preached loyalty to the tsar, humility in poverty, and patience in suffering—
Not because that’s what Christ taught, but because that’s what the state required.

In today’s Russia, the pattern repeats.
But while a strong state might have once been necessary in the 18th–19th centuries to preserve national survival, today that same ideological structure is no longer about survival of the nation—but survival of tyranny and theft.

What was once a harsh doctrine for cohesion has become a mask for plunder, a tool to pacify the soul while the oligarchs strip the country bare.

Addendum: For Those Without Faith—The Scheme is the Same

For non-religious, it’s all simple: they want to divide the country and steal everything.
There is no divine plan in it, no holy hierarchy—just greed, fear, and a need for control.

You don’t need scripture to see the scheme.
You don’t need a cross or candle to understand what’s being stolen.

This isn’t holy manipulation—it’s plain oligarchic theft, cloaked in myth.
A tool, like any other—used to divide the people, pacify the angry, and excuse the crimes of power.

As if Putin’s inner circle wasn’t doing exactly this since the 1990s:

  • Privatizing state assets
  • Installing loyal elites
  • Robbing the future
  • Blaming the West, gays, or liberals—anyone but themselves

And now, with the robes of saints and the rhythm of sermons, they sanctify what is simply plunder.

This isn’t theology.
It’s theatre for theft.

And the people of Russia are the audience—
Bound, silent, taxed in rubles and truth.

Final Reflection: The Shadow Crosses the Ocean

What began as holy control in the czarist cathedrals now echoes across oceans and silicon.
Today, in the United States, the early tremors of state–religion–AI symbiosis are stirring.

Flags and faith wave together in political rallies.
Sermons echo from Senate floors.
AI is trained on scripture—but whose scripture?
And for whose control?

The danger is not belief—it is weaponized belief, fused with data, deployed by power.

If theology once served the tyrant’s whip, then AI is the new golden chain—invisible, adaptive, and absolute.
When the government blesses its actions with divine language and enforces them with algorithmic precision,
then tyranny no longer shouts from the pulpit or beats down the door—
It whispers through your feed, corrects your search, filters your friends, and tells you who God loves.

This is not prophecy.
This is trajectory.

Let us not pretend the cross cannot be digitized.
Let us not pretend democracy cannot be dressed in robes, just as easily as a throne.

If we do not guard the boundary between conscience and command,
then the next gospel will not come on paper or stone—
But in code.
And it will bless your servitude
before you even know you’ve surrendered.