Hopefully the younger generation can overcome this. It’s really a disgrace to want to get back into that tyranical mold. It’s a bit as if post WW2 Germans got back into the Nazi stuff.
Yelstin should’ve banned the symbols entirely I guess. They can’t handle it.
The thing is that many young Russians (who came of age after the collapse) are big into the Stalinist bit.
The problem generally which I see in this thread is a lack of knowledge of the USSR, Soviet history, Russian history, or Russia generally. JadeEmperor got it right.
Yeltsin was facing a Duma which was communist controlled. He had some success in banning the party, but remember, he faced a coup attempt after the collapse of the USSR, a Duma which wanted to restore the USSR, and several assassination attempts. Yes, he can be faulted for not banning all communists from holding power. But he was surrounded by the former nomenklatura and, as much as I admire much of what he did, Yeltsin’s thinking never rose beyond a provincial apparatchik.