If you want to claim that Russia has repudiated the Soviet Union, you must explain why the Russians still worship the Lenin corpse in the Red Square, why their troops in Ukraine fly Soviet flags, why they erect Lenin statues in occupied areas of Ukraine and why Putin himself said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a tragedy (instead of an opportunity for a new beginning).
You must also explain why the Ukrainians shouldn’t be afraid of being targeted for genocide when Putin said that the Ukrainian nation didn’t exist and why other Eastern European nations shouldn’t be afraid they are the next Russian target when former Russian president Medvedev said they were actually Russian territories.
No - I need not explain Lenin’s corpse when the Ukrainians celebrate Nazism (Banderas). You string together 1-sided assertions as if it’s prosecutorial excellence. Russia knows its targeted for regime change and absorption into NATO - they felt safer when they were a Soviet block. In fact, they were safer from NATO when they were a block - but they want freedom too.