Russia's Deep State

U.S. Democrats are strongly in favor of Russia's old-guard communist party Deep State. Putin is not. While he does seek to re-unify much of the territory of the former USSR, he is not well described as a communist. Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin effectively brought an end to the false promises of communism through policies of glasnost and perestroika, which in fact Vladimir Putin himself is continuing to this day. Communism as such is outmoded and moot in Russia today, and Europe's strong desire for it has had to be frustrated time and time again, in an complete and total reversal of roles since the Cold War.

Russian missile strikes government building in Kharkiv (3 years ago)

Putin's military strikes have especially targeted Ukraine's local government and Deep State intelligence apparatus, including its gargantuan mental health system, which has been designed to enforce politically correct groupthink at all times, to punish wrongthink, and to coerce people's thinking into line with Communist Party policies.

Large city apartment complexes which were built during the Cold War on communist orders in preference to family housing, and have served largely as houses of prostitution, bootlegging and drug dealing in Ukraine, were also targeted in Putin's airstrikes.