Do western sources have no ideological interest?

Would you look at that: https://lemmy.ml/post/218864 Turns out the photo was taken on April 1 at 11:57 GMT (14:57 local time)

Um , you don’t understand what DoTP is. Dictatorship of The Proletariat doesn’t imply that it’s ruled by a dictator.

Jesse , what the fuck are you talking about?

OK , I relatively agree with the first paragraph , except Medvedev is pretty much can be seen as a Putin’s puppet and a way for Putin to abuse 2-term election limit (for those who don’t know , in Russia you only can’t be elected more than 2 times IN A ROW , which basically means nothing stops you from becoming a president again after there was a diffirent president elected before you)

Having NEP and Gosplan doesn’t imply that he actually believes in ideals of communism. Even South Korea used 5-year plans to their advantage and yet it didn’t move closer to communism by even an inch. It might instead be done for purely pragmatic reasons , such as reduction of significant oligarchic influence or perhaps him trying to replicate China’s success (we may never know).

The thing which you call “a praise of Communist figures” isn’t actually a praise , but might be quite the opposite. He compares communism to religion and Lenin’s mausoleum to relics of saints. Considering that Putin is a religious conservative it may be not a necessarily negative remark , but his intention doesn’t really matter , as no principled communist would compare communism with religion in the first place. May I also remind you , that he recently criticised and blamed Lenin for existence of Ukrainian state.

Zyuganov has a bad reputation among russian communists. It’s believed that he’s just a controlled opposition and judging by his party’s manifesto , CPRF is just a succdem party with Soviet Aesthetics.

By far , even his critique of capitalism doesn’t seem to come from socialist perspective , either. He believes in his own thing , which he himself calls “a reasonable conservatism”.

Now , about him supposedly “declaring oligarchs as traitors” , I understand Russian and there was no ‘oligarchs’ mentioned in his speech in the video. It looks like he bashes pro-western liberals more than anything.

At his early years he actually wanted to join NATO and the reason he now opposes them because NATO rejected him , not the other way around.

But ngl , it would be hilarious if he really was one of those “conservative socialist” types , but I doubt it.

Can’t relate lol