this is the post-soviet version of palingenetic ultranationalism. nostalgic idolization of the USSR as a "great power" and a "golden age" without any understanding of what made it greater than any other state that ever existed on Russian soil. Zero understanding of the explicitly anti-racist, anti-nationalist framework that enabled a multi-ethnic nation like that to thrive, no regard for the alternative economic system that made it the only state on that land to ever treat its citizens with the dignity human beings deserve. just "we were STRONK under Stalin bc great man theory!!!!"