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
To say it was a problem is to overstate it. Stalin was born in the 1800s and you are comparing it is Jim crow America. The soviet union would be in what you would call a pre-woke period. For all that they were still better than the US in most areas and if we didn't do a coup there every sign indicated they would have gone on to be fully progressivized beyond our american imagining.
From what soviet books and movies I have seen the soul of the people seemed to have internalized the hopeful optimisim of the revolution. A coupple generations and it could have been a wonder to see.