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After the great war russia went into a period of massive chaos.

At times it seemed like the old royals would win, that the republicans would win, that the socialists would win, and at one point that the communists would win, but when the fighting was over the only force still standing was the russian orthadox church.

For so long the church had been a relatively weak force in russian politics dominated by the royal family and the nobility, but with the other pieces of the board gone they gained power in russia and Russia was ruled by a theocracy that lasted almost a hundred years.

Even now with secularazation the church still has a lot of pull on what goes on in russian politics, but what if that didn't happen? What would the world look like today if Russia didn't become a theocracy?
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