Putin is part of a larger picture which involves Lenin's plan to fool the West into thinking that the Soviets have gone capitalist. When in fact they are just out to get our money, which they did, and then tighten the screw again, which they are now. Putin has nationalized 75% of the businesses in Russia. LUKoil is now in our country and is run by an FSB/KGB crony of Putin's. Don't buy gas there.
Putin can try as he might, but the genie is out of the bottle. There is no going back to being the USSR.