Indeed it's always amusing that whenever the Western media talks about Russian political opposition to Putin they almost never mention the Communist party despi

Indeed it's always amusing that whenever the Western media talks about Russian political opposition to Putin they almost never mention the Communist party despite it's consistently strong polling. Back to Putin - I see him as harking back to pre-communist Russian empire days, rather than the Soviet Union per se. So he is in the same camp as people in the UK who are nostalgic about the British empire.