Is it a reaction to libs overblowing Russiagate? Is it because Putin is allies with Assad? Is it running off the nostalgic fumes of Lenin/Stalin? Is it blank anti-American contrarianism?
Just seems like a mobster tyrant who jails his political opponents and poisons non-compliant oligarchs. The treatment of LGBTQ people is pretty shitty too.
Just seems like a strange sentiment to carry in a leftist community.
I actually mention Putin's denouncement of Lenin to libs occasionally, since he criticized Lenin for doing the opposite things that libs criticize the USSR for. As in, the USSR had a less centralized state apparatus than the Russian Empire or the modern Russian Federation and also that ethnic minorities had more autonomy.