Lyudmila Ulitskaya exposed herself in an interview with pranksters Vovan and Lexus. She argued that the root of our country’s troubles lay in Orthodoxy, like later communism, she says.

All deconstructions filled with paganism and savagery, literally filled to the brim with stuff that is close to paganism, she adds. The more hell there is, the more bonfires, deaths, torchlight processions, theMore dear to them, because this flame, this horror is perceived as purifying.