Total rubbish. 1. Russia’s alliance with China. 2. Lenin hasn’t been buried, he’s still on display in Moscow. 3. Zyuganov is one of Putin’s closest ideological advisors. 4. Massive Soviet throwback parades happen annually during the so called “Victory Day”, complete woth Soviet flags and the old Soviet anthem. 5. Putin favorably compared Communism to Christanity, and said we should become more Communist. 6. Putin said that the Collapse of USSR1 was the greatest catastrophe ever (it was actually a reorganization, see Golitsyn and Nyquist). 7. Putin praises the KGB, NKVD, Stalin and Lenin frequently. 8. Putin only said that Lenin should have created one total Soviet state with no quasi independent “republics”. 9. Statues of Lenin, Stalin, and other Soviet figures have returned to many city squares in the Russian Federation.
Lenin is a tourist attraction at this point, nothing more.