Originally Posted by Bladewire

I'm not wrong

Putin constantly takes successful private businesses on a whim and makes them "government entities" while taking a cut of the profits for himself. Putin did this to one of his political adversaries businesses (Mikhail Khodorkovsky).

I'm not sure why you are both defending communism and vilifying socialism they are nearly the same and very much intertwined. You can't really have communism without socialism.

You can't vilify a socialist without vilifying communist Russia & Putin.