A growing number of white nationalists identify with Vladimir Putin, ROCOR church: NPR

… What she found was a community of white American Christians who were disillusioned with change in the U.S. and who longed for the social and gender boundaries of the past. They are anti-abortion. They're pro-heteronormative families. They're anti-trans. There's very distinct gender roles in the church and in the domestic …

… these converts believed that, in ROCOR, they had found a church that has remained the same, regardless of place or politics, where tradition and hierarchy rule. But she also found that some of these converts weren't only searching for religious purity… 

…see the racism up close … 

…And he said, I'm so angry. And I said, well, why are you angry? And he said, I - you know, I'm a white guy. I've been pushed to the margins in this diverse society. And he said, my whole neighborhood is changing. There's all of these gays, and there's all of these different people. And you can't even get a job now as a white guy because you're oppressed. 

… He also talked about how much he supported Vladimir Putin and Russia. And then he, like, stopped, and he sort of smiled. And he said, do you know what I have upstairs?

… I have a gun safe, and I have lots of guns. And I know that there's a war coming, and I want to be on the right side of that war. And I said, who is the war with? Who's the right side? And he said, Russia's the right side…

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097673785/a-growing-number-of-white-nationalists-have-been-converting-to-orthodox-christia