Orthodox Christianity is the main religion in Russia<span> today. The </span>Russian<span> title “Czar” comes from the Roman and </span>Byzantine<span> term “Caesar.” The curved domes of </span>Russian architecture<span> were influenced by </span>Byzantine<span> designs. </span>Russia's<span> Cyrillic alphabet was created by the Orthodox missionaries from the </span>Byzantine Empire<span>.</span>
<span>Horatio Alger expressed the idea of individualism better than anyone else.</span>
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.