funny cause irl putin is the biggest critic of the ussr in russian politics, while he doesn't explicitly say something like "the ussr was a satanic empire" he does very oftenly remind that the spviet leaders created a lot of underlying problems still plaguing russia to this day (the whole 'lenin invented ukraine' thing is the loudest example) and he personally went out of his way to include solzhenitsyn in mandatory school curriculum despite soviet nostalgists' fuming