I think I have covered time and time again Putin’s Communist tendencies. Putin says that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe, that Communism is Compatible with Christanity, he has rehabilitated Stalin, he thinks that the collapse of the Soviet Union was illegal, he throws massive Soviet throwback parades every year, Lenin is still on display in Moscow, and no Soviet official ever faced trial for their crimes during Soviet times within the Russian Federation. And Putins bromance with Xi in China.
Maybe because they don’t believe in cancelling their history, like we do here, with removing Confederate Statues.