I'm aware of that, so what?
Putin is not Stalin
Want my take?
No.
You're not Putin, either.
Besides, last I checked, the Chinese also were cracking down on BLM/Homosexuals as well, and they’re still blatantly Communist.
So what?
Putin is not Xi, and Russia is not China.
There is one Government policy enforced where Communist China is not Communist at all, but you already know that.
“I’m aware of that, so what?
Putin is not Stalin”
No, but it IS precedence in a Communist country.
“I’m aware of that, so what?
Putin is not Stalin”
It certainly proves Putin is still Communist though. If he truly wasn’t communist, please explain why he is still keeping Lenin’s tomb in operation instead of bulldozing it the ground, or more blatantly, why he helmed a communist event recently in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkLe-hOvgU Would YOU, as an anti-Communist, do any of those things, or would you do everything in your ability to wipe the communists out in ANY capacity?
“So what?
Putin is not Xi, and Russia is not China.
There is one Government policy enforced where Communist China is not Communist at all, but you already know that.”
If you’re referring to the fact that the Chinese technically allow for businesses to function in China, you clearly aren’t aware of how even Lenin, aka the guy who first brought the theory of Communism into practice not just in Russia, but the entire World, did something like that early into the old USSR, the New Economic Policy, and he was VERY adamant that not only did it NOT change anything about the USSR being Communist, but that if anything even with those changes (which he was forced to bring about due to it nearly causing the USSR to collapse early on), they are STILL to engage in their usual behavior of blatant terrorism.
Besides, let me remind you that Armand Hammer, a huge businessman who repeatedly tried to push in making trade deals with the USSR, was not only a Communist agent, but also a key KGB asset.