Er, he’s a Russian. Its perfectly all right for him to be a Russophile. He has his nationalist point of view. He may be wrong (on Putin, say) but this is an honest error.
I would think most of the victims of the Gulag would have been Russophiles as well.
“I would think most of the victims of the Gulag would have been Russophiles as well.”
No - they were Ukrainian, Asian, and even German.
In fact the overwhelming number of victims of the Soviet Marxist Leninists WERE RUSSIANS.
10,000 Christian Orthodox priests ALONE were butchered in the first few years after the revolution.