That was 30 years ago. Communists there are about as gadfly as David Duke is here. You need to get out more.
Again showing your complete and total ignorance of Russia even while you routinely pretend to know WTF you're talking about. The Russian Communist Party wins on the regular about 20-25% of the vote. They're hardly anathema like David Duke (and David Duke, apparently, has a strong enough audience in Russia that he even visits there and takes photos with Alexandr Dugin). But you don't need the Communist party to run things when 60-70% of all government posts that can be appointed are filled with KGB-FSB or old Soviet military people, and these same "former" KGB and current FSB control most of the media and economy in Russia. It's not a coincidence that Putin helps communists everywhere, whether it's in Latin America, arming and supporting terror groups like FARC, or communist dictatorships North Korea with new weapons technologies, or China to harass and provoke South Korea, Japan, and everyone else.
The whole "Putin is not a Communist" argument only works if you only listen and pay attention to his speeches condemning gays and ignore everything he does. But hating the gays isn't that impressive. Even the Chinese make those sorts of comments, or attack "femininity" in their men. These countries need it, since the Russian military is filled with predatory homosexuals who occasionally get shot up by conscripts who can't take the abuse any more.
Basically, your entire Pro-Russian ideology revolves around a handful of his speeches, and not anything real. It isn't even real in Russia, where only 7% of the population bothers to attend church once a month, and where Putin's government routinely persecutes Protestants, Catholics, etc., in order to support the Russian Orthodox which is ruled by known KGB operatives, not men of real faith. Archbishop Kirill was spreading Liberation Theology under orders of the KGB before being promoted to his present rank.
Unfortunately, you are a troll, so no amount of truth telling on Russia will help you one little bit. But perhaps some reader will learn to not take your BS seriously, especially when you claim to be an authority on anything.