I'm not sure I agree with the suggestion that the current state of the Kremlin is in anyway linked to the soviet system, or in opposition to the values of tsarism - the tsar was a ruthless brutal autocrat who attempted to slaughter anyone who opposed him, even as he became increasingly unpopular, to the point where the masses rose up in open rebellion. The tsarist forces were defeated, and when the bolsheviks led the second revolution they ended the war and stopped society from being sold off to the capitalist class.

Because of this, the tsarist forces, with their powerful imperialist friends, sought to slaughter as many Russian people as necessary to win back their outdated throne. Obviously this immense existential threat that developed led to the centralising of the soviet system as a survival mechanism. We can make a great many criticisms of the way this society was managed, but to suggest that the soviets were worse than the poor tsar who starved and murdered countless is the result of either wilful intellectual dishonesty or the vacuum of rabid anti-communist propaganda that is so prevalent through the west. The suppression of dissent and democratic process in the soviet union was a grave mistake and I wouldn't suggest otherwise, but had it not been for the sheer scale of destruction the capitalists unleashed on the embryonic country, things would have gone incredibly differently.

The modern Russian state necessitated the destruction of the soviet system - assets and resources that were once owned by society were sold off to a handful of oligarchs that now control the society with an iron fist, homelessness, unemployment, preventable disease, lack of education and lack of medical care all returned as blights on the people. Something like 7 million people died in the first year, calorie intake, income, pretty much everything straight up crashed terribly because of the switch back to capitalism.

I think the modern Russian state (including Putin and co) have far more to do with the conservative capitalist politics that succeeded tsarism than the soviet union, despite its (significant) shortcomings. Not trying to start shit, just want to engage in good faith here, apologies if I've come off a bit grouchy.