Under Putin as a revanchist, Russia has reinstated four key ingredients of Soviet politics and geopolitics: the Iron Fist, the Big Lie, the expansion beyond Russian borders and the subversion of Western societies. He is giving another chance to a system that ended up on the ash heap of history in the last century because of its internal failures.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/...tin-223973
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/...tin-223973