If he weren’t a commie, he wouldn’t have kept Lenin’s mausoleum up and running (and if anything would at best bury his corpse in an unplotted mark of land, at worst make it the permanent decoration of a street lamp), he wouldn’t be rehabilitating Stalin, he wouldn’t have tried to criminalize any comparisons between the Nazis and the Soviets, he wouldn’t have made any comments in favor of Communism at all (ESPECIALLY not the egregious comparison between Communist documents and Lenin’s relics to that of the bible and saints, respectively), and he most certainly wouldn’t have Karl Marx’s statue still standing in Moscow. Even you have to acknowledge that bit.
I suggest you look at this site, BTW, that gives quite a bit of dirt on Putin’s Communist leanings:
https://www.outono.net/elentir/english/
And BTW, that site was in fact what I was alluding to earlier.
Take it someplace else.