With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now "officially godless" and redistributing the church's gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.
US Americans worship leaders like Jefferson and Washington to a degree that is beyond what most Europeans worshiped their kings and queens. Literally 2 minutes ago I was driving on Jefferson Street and turned onto Madison Street.