That's just it, Russia isn't the USSR anymore, now they're at least an ostensibly Christian nation, and they won't succumb to the depraved sodomite agenda, so once again, the left wakes up and writes history anew. All those years that they and their “pet” FDR schmoozed up to “Uncle Joe” were when he was a communist murderous thug, Now, how deep it really goes I couldn't say (are abortion rates still high among Russian women?) , but Russia at least is throwing off the “human secularist” shackles of state-ordained atheism, and turning back to her historical church, and I have to believe that at least some of them are sincere about the Christianity aspect, and not just the reclamation of their history. The majority of Russians oppose sodomite “mirage” And certainly aren't going to be browbeat into it by the West. The Left, and more importantly their globalist masters, can't sit still for this, as the sodomite agenda has been shown to be one of their most effective tools in undermining the family, and thereby (eventually) undermining nation-states.
In short, it's not hard to see why they'd consider present-day Russia a threat to their globalist plans, while Communist Russia (the “Internationale”) was a useful rung on their globalist ladder to the peak of power.