> Russia not being communist There are current pictures of active Russian military vehicles bearing the USSR-style hammer and sickle, and there are reportedly

> Russia not being communist There are current pictures of active Russian military vehicles bearing the USSR-style hammer and sickle, and there are reportedly older Russians who still idolize Stalin—who is responsible for over 20 million deaths (accountings vary). Economically, of course, Russia is no longer communist, but some would argue (pedantically) that it technically never was. At any rate, Russia never completely disavowed the previous system, and Putin has tried to rehabilitate his country's previous regimes, attributing their failures to Western treachery. So arguably their flavor of "Communism" was never fully erased and veins of it still persist in their society.