Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
Read the article, read the stream. Lots of people need to understand: The Soviet Union formed a loooooooong time ago and institutionally was racist, anti-Semitic, anti-homosexual, totalitarian, and viewed justice as a means to scare the living shit out of anyone who questioned whatever regime was in power. Putin is doing the same thing. He is probably illiterate and never read Marx. Who knows? He likes his power. He likes himself. He is not trying to bring back the USSR. He is sustaining an oligarchy that formed after the fall of the USSR. He most certainly is not a communist.
he has read marx, most people in soviet education were at least in some capacity taught marxist philosophy throughout their schooling. it's more about how much he believes in it/agrees with it (very little, obviously. he only really agrees with opposing western hegemony and nothing more) than how much he knows.