The latter is a body running when the head is cut off. There is a difference what kind of load one is bearing. The Soviet regime was not God bearing but God-destroying.
At this point Russians are a small ethnos without a nation, living often in emigration and taking on features of the host nation. Should the Russian Nation be restored somewhere, its meaning and purpose would be to repent of the sin of Communism and earn the forgiveness of the peoples of Eastern Europe.
The Soviet-German war was a tragedy and it should be remembered as such. It should be a day of mourning. The Soviet victory was at the same time slavery for East Europe and it solidified the hold that Stalin had over the peoples of the USSR. From the Russian perspective the war was a continuation of the Civil war, and that Second Civil War was lost again.
the Communists were a far more successful government after the WWII that any of the Ukrainian or Russian ones since 1991.
If you measure the success by being a menace to the rest of the world, yes. It is a tragedy that the Soviet period is not seen as Dark Age by the neo-Soviet people.
Of course, there are differencies. But I asked you to focus on the similarities.
At this point Russians are a small ethnos without a nation, living often in emigration and taking on features of the host nation.
If so, you can forget about those Russians, they're doomed to die out. Taking features, living abroad. There are more than 140 mln people living in the Russian Federation, they matter, the others - don't.
to repent of the sin of Communism and earn the forgiveness of the peoples of Eastern Europe.
No, an idea like that is too "Eastern-European" for a Russian national idea. It gives neither self-identification, nor emotional drive. Just a wet dream of some Eastern-Europeans. Imposing such ideas requires a revolver as Al Capone might say. Eastern Europe lack one today.
If you measure the success by being a menace to the rest of the world, yes. It is a tragedy that the Soviet period is not seen as Dark Age by the neo-Soviet people.
No, I measure quality of the country's public life and don't include anything from international relationships.