Anti-communist? LOL. Putin is literally on record saying he wishes the Soviet Union had not collapsed. He was a card carrying member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until it was banned in 1991.   Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared Vladimir Lenin to a saint and declared that Soviet communist ideas come from the Bible.   https://www.newsweek.com/putin-says-communism-comes-bible-compares-lenin-saint-781328