This shit is deranged on so many levels, I love it
An educated Marxist-Leninist such as Putin accepted that there had been more than 100 million victims of communism, an acceptable price to pay to remodel the world. He accepted the purges that Lenin and Stalin used to cement their rule, the forced famines that eliminated enemies of the state, the forced labor camps in Siberia, the tight control of all media. Putin studied the techniques of agitation and propaganda, applying them in his KGB assignment in Dresden in East Germany during the Cold War.
https://archive.is/4nZkS
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1533851215624298497
well he was a kgb agent in soviet russia, so i'm sure he had some perverted form of the ideology driven into him
not that he is some how adherent to that ideology in the slightest