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That is because True Biblical Christianity is freedom.
Communism is it's own cult-style belief system. Pootie is a rabid follower. It is slavery with corrupt and evil individuals at the controls to lord over their underlings. Putin has never gotten over his Soviet brainwashing and now he is compelled to reinvent it in his image.
He has already started an attempt to remove the Gospel from being preached.
9/15/16 “A New Russian Law Targets Evangelicals and Other Foreign Religions”
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-russia-foreign-religion-crackdown-498551
Yet Russia has a flat tax, if I’m not mistaken. Real Marxists believe in progressive taxation. Putin is a authoritarian statist, but I don’t think he’s really Marxist anymore (if he ever was)