I don’t know how Putin thinks, but if he wanted to earn the trust (and indeed love) of right-wing people and movements, as well as strike a clear differentiation in everyone’s mind between the previous Soviet Union vs. present day Russia - he would admit to, and reveal the exact methods and facts of, the Soviet Union and Comintern’s cultural attack on the West.
Come on, that was the cold war.
America used to provide money, weapons and trainings to Mujahideens in Afghan and Pakistan.
No need to mention America-backed Pinochet regime, the war on left wingers in Chile was very bloody(massacre, torture,assassination.....)
Russophobe nuts are full of McCain’s old crap.