Not even close. For me, America is a child of the enlightenment. Russia... is not. For a throrough review of the intellectual influence that enlightenment thin

Not even close. For me, America is a child of the enlightenment. Russia... is not. For a throrough review of the intellectual influence that enlightenment thinkers had on America, check out C. Bradley Thompson's America's Revolutionary Mind. https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2020/americas-revolutionary-mind-moral-history-american-revolution-declaration https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2020/americas-revolut...