With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now "officially godless" and redistributing the church's gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.
There shouldn't be. If you see any genuine support for Putin call it out, he's nothing more than a fascist
His only merit is that Russia is a counterweight to American imperialism. But thats because they are two competing imperialist powers, not one imperialist against an anti-imperialist