Put another way, the SOVIETS were anti-Russian in the same way extreme leftists in our country are anti-American. ==
You know it is interesting comparison:). BUT I would say that "soviets" is what russians and not only them had to be in Soviet Union by force of repressions. Of cause commies are willingly soviets.
If in America they compelled you to be a "leftist" and foregt who you are and want to be under threat of to be thrown into prison camp or executed then comparison would be equal.
"Put another way, the SOVIETS were anti-Russian in the same way extreme leftists in our country are anti-American."
No, this comparison doesn't hold water. We're not talking about political and ideological positions but about ETHNICITY. You may say about Mike Moore that he is stupid American, "not real" American or anti-american American, you may even call him traitor, but you can't deny that HE IS American. When you say he is not American it is a metaphor, not literal meaning.
I might agree that Soviets were anti-russian in a sense, but what RusIvan says is that they were NOT Russians at all (do I understand you correctly Ivan?), and today's Russians have no reason to feel a least bit ashamed or guilty of their past. It is the same "victim philosphy" as in Germany (we didn't do, we were Hitler's victims, just like you), but in Russia it is raised to the position of official state ideology.