Communists shouldn't be talking about Putin as if he's a "good guy" or "hero" in the first place. These are lib-rot, idealist descriptors of a head of a periphery state. I know we're just memeing here, but if we're gonna have a serious discussion about contemporary Russia or any other country (even the Marxist ones) we should be weary of romanticizing them. This ain't the MCU. States have interests, which their leaders and the ruling parties that back them pursue, and Russia is anti-imperialist due to circumstance, not out of benevolence. Reminder that in the beginning, post-Soviet Russia under Putin tried to join the Western imperialist club.