YOU WON. YOU FUCKING WON THE COLD WAR. YOUR IDEOLOGY HAS DOMINION OVER THE WHOLE EARTH. THIS IS THE WORLD YOU MADE. THIS IS THE WORLD YOU WANTED. THIS IS WHAT YOU TRIUMPHING LOOKS LIKE.
YOU WON. YOU FUCKING WON THE COLD WAR. YOUR IDEOLOGY HAS DOMINION OVER THE WHOLE EARTH. THIS IS THE WORLD YOU MADE. THIS IS THE WORLD YOU WANTED. THIS IS WHAT YOU TRIUMPHING LOOKS LIKE.
To be fair, most people in western countries use the word communist to simply mean "when bad government things happen and there's a dictator." They don't actually mean Russia and Eastern Europe have a liquidated capitalist class and social control over production, they mean bad countries are doing bad things they don't like. Libs would call Trump a communist, remember? Also a lot of people (Americans) literally do not realize Russia and the USSR were different countries with different governments. It gets really weird when I talk to people born after 2000 who still call Russia communist. They weren't even alive for Cold War propaganda, so how does it reach their heads? Their parents?
also probably some kind of refusal to admit capitalist countries can be adversarial with one another
That or cultural osmosis, Russians have been the bad guys in movies since the first Cold War and Hollywood never stopped even after it was over