No, it is really commies again. That is why Russia is rehabilitating Stalin, bringing back the hammer and sickle flag, doing away with their (sort of graduated) “flat tax”, keeping huge state-owned corporations, bad mouthing Solzhenitsyn, controlling all information flow, and handing out long prison terms to those who dare practice free speech.
Also note that Russia’s allies are North Korea, Hamas, and Iran and sometimes China.
Totally agree - and would include that Putin’s critics end up “falling” out of windows and dying in gulags.