They fly red flags, restore Lenin monuments in Ukraine (felled by the nationalists in their hundreds, something that the useless American ones never did even to the single Lenin in America), still worship Lenin himself in his mausoleum, the Kremlin still has its red stars and so have their military.
The Communist Party (actual Bolshevik Party itself) is a large force in the government on all levels.
Putin himself and many others are and call themselves the Chekists (the force created specifically to defend the Bolshevik rule through the Red Terror, and is today celebrated in the state holiday Chekist Day, an anniversary of its founding on December 20) and he refers to the fall of the Bolshevik state as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century.
When they did take Bakhmut, they renamed it Artyomovsk, in honor of the Bolshevik leader "Comrade Artyom" (party pseudonim not real name, like Iosif Dzhugashvilli became "Comrade Stalin"), which is just typical. Bakhmut was the pre-Bolshevik name.
They fly red flags, restore Lenin monuments in Ukraine (felled by the nationalists in their hundreds, something that the useless American ones never did even to the single Lenin in America), still worship Lenin himself in his mausoleum, the Kremlin still has its red stars and so have their military.
The Communist Party (actual Bolshevik Party itself) is a large force in the government on all levels.
Putin himself and many others are and call themselves the Chekists (the force created specifically to defend the Bolshevik rule through the Red Terror, and is today celebrated in the state holiday Chekist Day, an anniversary of its founding on December 20) and he refers to the fall of the Bolshevik state as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century.
When they did take Bakhmut, they renamed it Artyomovsk, in honor of the Bolshevik leader "Comrade Artyom" (party pseudonim not real name, like Iosif Dzhugashvilli became "Comrade Stalin"), which is just typical. Bakhmut was the pre-Bolshevik name.