Russia attempted to change, but the KGB reasserted itself by the year 2000 and we're thoroughly entrenched by the Year 2007 when Putin took over. As I said neither one were communist regimes. That was propaganda. The real enemy in this world is fascism.Oddly, I'm not sure Russia has really changed its econ system. China certainly has not, although Xi seems to have consolidated power to himself, rather than a committee of the "communist" party.