Not in love with the Soviet Union? What planet are you posting from?
"Speaking to children on the first day of Russia’s school year, President Vladimir Putin on Friday waxed nostalgically about the Soviet era, when “we lived in one single country” and were “absolutely invincible,” as Moscow imposed several new measures to shape a new generation for war."
“I realized why we won the Great Patriotic War,” he told students, using the Russian name for World War II. “It was impossible to defeat such a nation with such a spirit. We were absolutely invincible. And we are like that now.”
Putin spoke also of stepping up efforts to impose Russia’s “unified education system” on “the new territories, new regions” — a reference to occupied Ukraine. Those efforts include a new history curriculum that justifies the invasion of Ukraine as a fight against “neo-Nazis.”
Speaking by videoconference to students at a new school in occupied Mariupol, Ukraine, the port city largely destroyed by Russian forces last year, and in four Russian regions, Putin said Moscow would spend $19.8 billion in occupied Ukraine over the next two and a half years “to make people feel part of a big country and experience the advantages.”
Hitler youth corp, Putin youth corp, no difference. With his hundreds of billions of dollars - he wouldn't keep his fortune in rubles - it would be fair to say Putin is no fan of communism, but clearly he is pining for Russia's lost eastern European colonies.