An Observation About the ‘Kremlin’

Watching American television last night I once again was introduced to what I find to be a very strange phenomena.  The show was speaking about the Moscow Kremlin.  The building being called the Kremlin was in fact a very poor model of St Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square (in fact adding Red Stars and Catholic Style crosses to the cupolas in very poor taste; the juxtaposition of soviet and western Christian symbols as well as poor paint job was very difficult to swallow.).  An Architect character in the program called the building displayed ugly (unlikely for any architect of merit in my opinion).

The obvious russophophia and typical disregard for the distinguishing points of Orthodoxy aside I still do not understand one thing.  Why is it that whenever Russia is pictured in the press or in TV shows St Basil’s is displayed when referencing the Kremlin?  Is this a holdover from the paranoid fundamentalist Christian fear of the Soviet Union during the cold war?  Is there a fear that showing the Kremlin, which has several churches within would be worse for the Western propaganda against Russians than showing a single church?  Certainly simple disrespect for the facts cannot explain why this is so commonly done; photos of Red Square and St Basil’s are referred to as ‘the Kremlin’ when in fact little if any of the Kremlin is shown.

Revolting all the same but also bizarre.

For those reading this unfamiliar with what I am referring to please note:

The Kremlin looks like this:

St Basil’s Cathedral looks like this:

Also.  Please note that in our capital, mixed among our political buildings are in fact over a dozen Churches.  There are many who absurdly call Russia atheist.  Atheist nations do not place religious buildings all over their capital.  Atheist nations would strive always to keep religious buildings far far away from their capital & political buildings.