Looks can be deceiving.
I assure you, that I see Communists and Stalinists all over the place now. The American foreign policy that insists on making Russia an enemy and credible geopolitical threat is causing them to multiply. They figure, “Why join a West that is aiming to screw us?” And Victory Day IS a focal point for them, the one thing they can self-righteously beat their chests over, because it is true that ordinary people from the Soviet Union bore tremendous losses that we are unable or unwilling to wrap our heads around. On a Victory Day that was cold with light drizzling, and a parade cancelled with the excuse of Covid, I saw Communists gathered with red flags in the town square anyway. I see Orthodox people in my church who admire and justify Stalin. And I am alarmed.
