Considering that all the Russians I knew, even during the starving Yeltsin years, hated communism with a passion, and Putin’s approval rating is over 80%, I think they took it in context as I said.
You are stuck in your mindset and nothing will change that.
Lots about how the Khokhols need to be killed because they don't want to come back under Kremlin control. Solovyev and the well-fed wench from the Russian media do the same thing. The need to drag people down to the commie's level of suckdom is classic commie behavior.
A commie by any other name is still a commie.