Uh, when you have a totalitarian police state, and if you were to work for that government, the odds were the vast majority were members of the nazi party. I suspect the same is for Putin’s crew when they were part of the the old Soviet Union. Wbo else better to run a government than government workers with experience, even if they were part of an evil former system? Welcome to the way the world works under socialism/communism. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
When it came to Putin, past was prologue. Are you saying the same applies here?
“Who else better to run a government than government workers with experience, even if they were part of an evil former system?”
The people they oppressed? Their victims? Decent people? There are so many choices.