What part is inaccurate?
A majority of people does find Stalinism as evil in Russia, and they think older Tsarist imperialism is ridiculous. Gulag Archipelago is a required read in secondary school. A myth of their popularity is propped by Russian liberal NGOS working for foreign grants. These respective organizations are funded to counter these evils and when they can’t find any real boogeys they are reporting some really weird freaks and posing them as they are a part of something bigger.
The absolutely evil part of this process is that this propaganda is not only working for external consumption. There are enough immature idiots who sees this crap in media, thinks it is cool and they start to follow this model en-masse. That is how bogeyman propaganda translates into reality.
One live example of how it works are anti-immigrant gangs in Russia. About near millennium NGOs were all around media with their BS on how are skinheads on the rise in Russia and immigrants are in danger. It was an absolute bullcrap at the time as there wasn’t any visible skinheads or concerned immigrants. But constant propaganda has somehow changed it and by mid-1990s there have been numerous racist attacks.
In light of this crap I’m really concerned about growing fearmongering propaganda on both growing Stalinism and Chauvinistic Imperialism. It might translate into reality as well. Maybe already does.