America’s elites would be praising Putin and that biker if it was a hammer and sickle on the bikers jacket. But because it’s a cross, our leaders hate them
Actually Stalin has experienced a resurgence of appproval under Putin — as well as the entire Soviet legacy. The Orthodox Church remains caught between State pressure to whitewash history on one hand, and genuine commemoration of all of all communism’s victims in the other. Ukraine’s segmented the Church has split from Moscow patriarchate due to its hyper politicization.
To this day the victims of USSR repression remain unacknowledged in any meaningful way save for a few convenient monuments here and there. There are still more monuments to Lenin.