At this point if you're still supporting him, you might be the nut in the box of chocolate.

KGB Puting is still a literally born & bred a traditional USSR styled so-called Communist, of course, not the fantasy Marxist type we read about it books that can't functionally exist in anything larger than a Kibbutz.

He had a background in the KGB but everybody in Russia above a certain age would have a background in Soviet communism. That doesn't mean they are one.

His politics is staunchly anticommunist and so are his supporters.

He seeks something akin to a revival of the USSR, granted, with more money to stuff in his pockets and more blatant about the profiteering.

No. He's a revival of authoritarianism, which Russia has history of going back to the Tsars. Were the Tsars communist? Because if you think they were then you may have massively missed the entire point of the whole thing in the first place.

That's awesome!
Still, KGB Putin is still a literally born & bred a traditional USSR styled so-called Communist STILL, of course, STILL not the fantasy Marxist type we read about it books that can't functionally exist in anything larger than a Kibbutz STILL.

What he sure ain't is a Tsar.

Hope this clarifies things!