Remember, this is made possible thanks to Neocons and their irrational hatred for all things Russia. It all began with Trotsky and an ice pick.
WTF? They pull Kiryandils thread from last night?
That was a fun one!
A vast number of people have hated Russia, the polity (not “all things Russia”) for centuries. Russia has been rather consistently a**h**e-ish since forever. The Soviet Union was just a special case.
As for the “neocons” - there were hordes of all other sorts of “cons”, and even monarchists, socialists, rice farmers and winemakers who hated the Soviets.