Hey!Maybe there’s hope that the majority of the Russian People do NOT want to see a return to communism under Putin or anybody else.
Putin’s authoritarian style grates on a people typically used to submissiveness but there is just so much they will put up with. Most Russians regard the government as venal and corrupt and there is the feeling things aren’t going to change and what happened today was a protest vote against the system... the only way Russians can express their dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. Putin didn’t do a lot of the things he could have done and for Russians the status quo is no longer good enough.