During the Lenin/Trotsky rule, the natural family was all but destroyed, abortion made easy to obtain, and gender-bending ‘gay’ equality forced on the culture. With the family all but destroyed along with the work ethic in a sexually promiscuous culture, the economy tanked. Upon Lenin’s death, Stalin seized control, exiled Trotsky and in a desperate bid to revitalize the family and economy, quickly moved to criminalize sodomy, pederasty, pedophilia, lesbianism, etc. Stalin was a mass-murderer, but at least he did something good even if for self-serving reasons.
Since the Iron Curtain fell, Russia has been trying to recover its’ sanity, health, family, etc. More than anyone, they know first-hand just how sick, twisted and diseased everything becomes in a gender-bending culture and want no more of it.
Lenin and Trotsky also experimented with "progressive" education, the very sort that is being implemented in our school systems today. The net result of Communist education (no curriculum, grades based on "creativity and participation," rather than merit, no ranking or authority over children) was a generation of illiterates, just as we have.
Post-Lenin Soviet leaders realized that "progressive" education wouldn't produce the engineers and other technical experts they needed to fight the cold war, so they reintroduced a rigorous, competitive, and merit-based system of education (similar to what they had in Continental Europe before the "New Left" took it over).
It seems that the US is experimenting with Leftists models that even the Soviets recognized as abject failures and had the sense to discard.