> Fulfils his old goal of expanding Russia to old soviet borders (see Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea etc). Which I read as a direct continuation of pre-communist im

> Fulfils his old goal of expanding Russia to old soviet borders (see Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea etc). Which I read as a direct continuation of pre-communist imperial ambition. When whites turned red they mostly just dropped their loyalty to the Romanov, keeping other elements of imperial attitude basically unchanged. And to this day there seems to be the idea of a "historical injustice" that deserves correction wrt places that used to be under Romanov rule at some point but subsequently got independent.