In the movie, the priest from Romagna convinces the fearful pope to confess the sick and elderly mother of the communist mayor of the Soviet country, then teaching him to fight with him as in the Brescello tradition. To this in some ways comical part of the film, one must think of it by connecting it to the famous words of the DC MP La Pira, which,after an invitation to speak before the Russian Supreme Soviet, had the opportunity, which was rare for the time, to observe the Russian company.
His spokesperson, and journalist, Vittorio Citterich, he pointed out how inside the residues, and often clandestine, russian dog, there were only old ladies with candles in their hands, and La Pira, he replied by stating “If these who seem to you are just old ladies with candles in their hands, in a difficult and hostile historical context like this, did not keep the flame of the wedding ring in Christ, where do you believe future Russian generations would find the fire of the Christian fire that will inevitably come?”.
No phrase was more prophetic and truthful. Russia, even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, resumed the old ones traditions ortodosse­, in truth never completely renounced, especially by farmers, and began to restore his Christian identity. The churches returned to their ancient functions, abandoning that of granaries, and religious events and traditions were once again permitted with great fanfare, just think of the beatification of Nicholas II, and the inclusion of Saint George defeating the basilisk in the presidential flag.
No wonder, Therefore, of the fact that Putin's Russia now takes sides on the global geopolitical chessboard as the paladin of Eastern Christians, a bit like he did with the Christians of the Balkans, placing itself as the only barrier to liberal indoctrination, which he brought, volent or nolent, to Islamic fundamentalism, to forced homologation and is proceeding towards the cancellation of every bulwark of identity, community e cul­turale.
Russia has managed to move from an atheist state par excellence to a new Christian state, simultaneously secular, see the construction of a huge mosque in Moscow and Putin's gift to Rohani of an ancient copy of the Koran. A final example of this protection of the world cristiano, and the values ​​connected to it, is offered by the immediate taking of a favorable position d­ell’Armenia, with USA, Türkiye and Israel instead immediately sided with Azerbaijan during the latest crisis that broke out between the two countries.
The historical truth, that for many liberal solons, many European bureaucrats, and many men from overseas are more than uncomfortable, is that every Christian in the Middle East who has not been beheaded or tortured for his faith owes it to Russia, to its soldiers and its acute politicians. And the same goes for every European. ­
Who professes to be Christian, practitioner at least, must necessarily give Russia credit for keeping the flag of Christianity high, of civilization and tradition, against relativism, he materialism ed he giacobinismo, with all due respect to the gods progressives, day free borders, of Al Baghdadi, of Clinton, e, but hoping to be proven wrong, on Trump, which are all sides of the same coin, that of false equality, of social law overthrown in favor of civil law, that of Islamic religious fanaticism, exploited and created to overthrow the secularism and sovereignty of inconvenient states. It used to be said "the sun no longer rises in the east", now we must hope that this dawn will last forever.