Yeah, as much as I support Trump, I really wouldn’t go so far as to call Putin anti-Stalinist. Actually, a lot of his remarks had him if anything outright supporting Stalin to such an extent that he had the film “The Death of Stalin” banned from Russia. If he were truly anti-Stalin, he would have let the film play there.
Another way to look at it though, is that Russia sees how we are trying to jettison our history because the people back then were “racist”.
What does that accomplish? What’s done is done. Russia perhaps wants to avoid the cynicism that comes with such jettisoning of history.