I am sure that Putin, by knowing all the secrets and where all the “bodies are buried”, is more than capable of crushing whatever true communists remain.
I don’t think so. There is a reason why Putin is silent but Kadyrov is shooting his mouth off. They are testing water this way. It is past time to crack down on the left completely in Russia but consequences and public perception are one big unknown. If there won’t be a crap storm over these statements they might indeed bury Lenin stripping the left of a very powerful symbol and then proceed in more than symbolic spheres.