[NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961]

Remember, we never "decommunized" Russia in the 1990s. Expect more of the same.

[GarySpFc]

Remember, we never "decommunized" Russia in the 1990s. Expect more of the same.

Nonsense! So you would impose democracy with a gun? It was never our place to decommunize anyone, much less Russia.

[GSlob]

"Remember, we never "decommunized" Russia in the 1990s. Expect more of the same."
You are right: communism is a way of life, not red banners and slogans. Like every other way of life, it is characterized by how people relate to one another in socially important situations. ("If I'm the boss, then you're a POS, and if you're the boss then I'm a POS" - a Russian proverb on this subject. Thus nomenklatura types walk through life like master race, and our own Clintons in this sense are communists, but this is a small deviation from the subject).
In this sense Russia has always been a communist society, does know and cannot be anything else, and if one was somehow to decommunize Russia, it would cease existing.