Why was there never any neo-pagan movements in the Soviet Union

>>3237171
Vodka is the real Russian religion.

>>3237171
The USSR had problems with other religions for a while.

>>3237171
The Soviets didn't have freedom of religion.

>>3237171
>Why was there never any neo-pagan movements in the Soviet Union like there was in the West?

Slavic natives were illiterate when Christianity invaded - hence their mythologies were virtually completely wiped out. Greek and Roman myths have persisted as a cultural subtext so long because they were the most copious writers of the pagans.

>>3237171
They would have gotten gulaged immediately I guess. I mean soviets were still gulaging baptists in the 1970's simply for being christians. Not very tolerant of fringe religious groups

>>3238917
>Slavic natives were illiterate when Christianity invaded - hence their mythologies were virtually completely wiped out.
Except rituals and traditions survived in Christian rites like Easter and Christmas.

>>3237171
There were, tiny, but there were.

Also the namefag above is surprisingly correct. Information on ancient Slavonic religion are extremly limited.

The incompetent state couldn't afford
competition, no matter how ridiculous

>>3238917
ironic, considering how long the traditions persisted and still exist syncretically with eastern orthodoxy to the point that the russian east orthodox church's was to 'weed out the paganism with a new paint coat' for centuries all the way up to modernity