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I didn’t say anything positive about Putin. Really didn’t say anything positive about Russia.

I did say if Russia was still actually communist then the Democrats would love them and serve them.

As tor your “proofs”, well, we still keep the Constitution physically around even though we haven’t lived under it since the 30s.

I would go further to opine of our many monuments in DC that we didn’t need so many monuments to national glory until they had to hide that we weren’t really under lawful governance anymore. But they have multiplied them since.

Russia needs all the monuments it can get too for its own reasons, probably like borrowing mojo from what came before it. Proverbial beggers cannot be choosers.

Like gangsters and Marxists (redundancy), human criminal nature is to divide into different factions. In organized crime, New York's Five Families would conflict with the Chicago Outfit or with local Jewish and Irish gangsters. The USSR had its conflicts, first between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks and later between Trotskyites and Stalinists. Currently the Communists in China and Russia are fighting the leftists running the U.S. and most of the Western nations. At another time, sides may switch. Think of the shifting alliances in Orwell's 1984. "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia."

The current regime hides behind old patriotic imagery. But that is in reminisce of an older order of limited government and moral decency. Russia uses the symbology of a murderous totalitarian regime. Germany thoroughly de-Nazified. To this day, the German government prosecutes people now close to 100 for tangential involvement in war crimes. When Russia renounces all the old Soviet symbolism and punishes former KGB and Communist Party members for their crimes, I will believe that Russia is no longer Communist controlled.