Yup don't see any good in the USSR or Putin's attempt to whitewash their history or to revive it.
We clearly have enemies within our country and outside it. Russia, with its thousands of nuclear missiles aimed at us, is clearly an enemy.
If someone is belligerent to you, you will react accordingly to them in the same manner.
Or put another way, you will reap what you sow. If you sow hate you will reap hate in return.
the Russian federation has made itself the enemy. There was/is no need, but Putin’s ambitions to conquer his neighbors led to the situation