Your definition of "Russian" is of purely politic nature. That's not right, the definition needs to be ethnic.
Russians who support Putin are just lowbrow commie soviets. They’re reinforcing stereotypes about their heritage as being unable to think for themselves and needign a cruel master to lead them.
Not quite. Nations change. Americans, for example, were once British. The Soviet man is indeed a new phenomenon that has little to do with Russianness as we know it through the centuries. The present population of the Russian Federation, while retained some ethnic Russian roots has acquired a different, ugly mentality on display today.