Degenerate Russia
In this series, we look behind the Kremlin propaganda and see the real Russia – an authoritarian country that doesn’t care about its people and desperately tries to hold on to its imperialistic past.
As part of their “firehose of falsehood”, Kremlin propaganda aimed at “right-wing” / conservative audiences tries to portray russia as a bastion of Christian, traditional values. The reality, of course, is quite the opposite.
Degenerate vatniks – it’s a certain type of people that Russia tends to get to through MICE or who are capable of supporting the Russian atrocities and war crimes. Not the good kind.

Soups
Vatnik Soup Videos
- “Patriarch Kirill - KGB Agent Turned Holy Man”, December 31, 2023
- “Russia’s Darkest War Crime Yet: Targeting Ukraine’s Children”, June 7, 2025
Documentaries, interviews, podcasts
Links, documents, resources
- The False Romance of Russia: American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.
- Russia Tortures Christians
- The Myth of the “Crusader Putin”: Conservative Catholics tempted to see Putin’s Russia as a Christian alternative to an atheistic West need to look more deeply at the reality underneath.
- The Role of Christianity in Russia’s War on Ukraine
- ’Putin is pure evil’ — Trump’s spiritual advisor on Russia’s war against Ukraine