Imperial ideas or Byzantine heritage: Communism and the Church?

Soviet and anti-Soviet ideological clichés continue living in foreign and domestic politics of the states formed during the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Russophobia, or Anti-Russian sentiment, and the search of a national idea should be considered in the light of the arising processes as the continuation of the broadcast of imperial ideas. Thereupon the Soviet period of the history had its own characteristics. It still has its influence even contemporary Russian reality.