As far as statues are concerned, where do you draw the line? Is it really acceptable to have statues of mass murderers (the Bolshevik leaders were mass murderers) in public places? Had the Nazis erected statues of Hitler in Germany, should they have remained in place?
But even if we accepted the idea of “not fighting the statues” in its purest form, why do the Russian occupiers erect statues of Lenin in Ukraine? They surely seem to love their Bolshevik murderers. They fly Soviet flags too.
De-Communization isn’t only about statues. In my country we have a law that prohibits former Communist functionaries and agents from holding certain positions in public administration. No such restrictions were enacted in Russia.
You are trying to claim that Russia has been de-Communized, but where is the evidence?
In Russia Communism is only part of the problem. Russia has no tradition of free political institutions (Novgorod didn’t represent the Russian mainstream and it was destroyed anyway). A few months in 1917 could not create a tradition.
Saying that Putin has improved the rule of law and freedoms is a sick joke. Putin’s political opponents are either dead, or in prison, or in exile.
Soviet socialism and Nazism are not the same. Nobody erects Lenin’s statues in Ukraine, except returns to places where they were previously removed for the reasons outlined previously.
Regarding de-communization, Russia was practically de-communized in 1956.
Regarding Russian tradition, they aren’t any business of the guy called Czech occidentalist, regardless of does he understand th or not. His business is to leave peacefully along and not cause troubles because Russia and Czechia aren’t in the same category.