The Third Rome? Russia displays its alliance with dictatorships that persecute Christians

Some pro-Russian propagandists have been referring to Moscow as the "Third Rome" for years, a successor to Rome and Byzantium.

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These propagandists want us to believe that Vladimir Putin's dictatorship is the great example of Christianity, while the Russian invaders perpetrate all kinds of atrocious crimes against Ukrainian civilians (including children and babies). These propagandists never say anything about the fact that Russia has attacked almost 600 Christian churches in Ukraine, showing particular cruelty towards them while acting more carefully with mosques.

As if the Kremlin's crimes and constant lies weren't enough to undermine the claims of its propagandists, today Putin's dictatorship has once again demonstrated its alliance with some dictatorships that appear on the list of the 50 countries that most persecute Christians in the world, a list published by the Christian NGO Open Doors in January and composed mainly of communist dictatorships and Islamist regimes. Here we see soldiers of the Chinese communist dictatorship parading today in Moscow:

Soldiers of the Chinese Army are marching on the Red Square in Moscow as Russia celebrates Victory Day with a military parade.

For more than 3 years now, the Russian Army has been unable to achieve victory in Ukraine and they are still nowhere close to it. pic.twitter.com/VxzLvDtEgw

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 9, 2025

That list of persecution is headed by the communist dictatorship of North Korea. Today, during the May 9 parade in Moscow, commemorating the end of World War II in Europe with the usual communist paraphernalia (something that hasn't changed in Russia since Stalin's time), Putin greeted high-ranking military officers from that brutal dictatorship who traveled to the Russian capital in this way:

Аt the Moscow parade, Putin publicly shook hands with North Korean generals

Earlier, Putin personally thanked Kim Jong Un for providing North Korean soldiers as cannon fodder to fight alongside Russian forces, specifically in the Kursk region, where battles against Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/jMljZK8bOh

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 9, 2025

According to the Kremlin, soldiers from 13 other countries marched in Moscow today. Among these countries are nine regimes that are on the list of the 50 countries that persecute Christians the most: China (15), Laos (21), Uzbekistan (25), Turkmenistan (29), Kazakhstan (38), Tajikistan (39), Egypt (40), Vietnam (44), and Kyrgyzstan (47). In addition, the list of countries that have sent representatives to Moscow for this parade includes some that are also on the list of regimes that persecute Christians the most: North Korea (1), Burkina Faso (20), Cuba (26), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (35).

Thus, today's parade in Red Square has seemed like a meeting of countries that persecute Christians, as well as being a re-edition of the USSR's alliances in the Cold War, to which we must also add the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela, whose tyrant, Nicolás Maduro, has traveled to the Russian capital and met with Putin. The Russian dictator also held a high-level meeting with the Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, his great ally.

Seeing on social media supposed conservatives, Christians, and right-wingers supporting this dictatorship allied with communist and Islamist regimes that persecute Christians is yet another example of how some have allowed themselves to be manipulated by Russian propaganda to ridiculous extremes, or worse, are collaborating with it to manipulate others. In exchange for what?

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Photos: Kremlin.