This is an absurd take, Russia has given up any pretense of "communism" for 35 years. As far as I can tell from a quick look on Wikipedia, the party has been at

This is an absurd take, Russia has given up any pretense of "communism" for 35 years. As far as I can tell from a quick look on Wikipedia, the party has been at least mildly anti-soviet since 1968. Most importantly, it is very obvious that here in the EU, this sort of snooping on personal emails has its roots in the large state security apparatus of the western part of the EU (especially with western Europeans being way more likely to trust their national secret services than those in the former communist countries), not in any Russian influence. It is especially the nationalists that imagine foreign spies everywhere and want the ability to control chat.