There are plenty of people that believe and further that propagandize that Russia is a communist nation; but in fact, Russia, under any of its former names, has never been communist in principle. The thing is, that communism is supposed to be a classless society in which all property is own in common, and each member, so of, gets what they so get, according to their respective needs. There isn’t anything within Russia, that has ever resembled a classless society and clearly the general public, in reality, owns only a small portion of the wealth of Russia, and for the most part, that general public has effectively little or no say in regards to any meaningful public policy and therefore the governance of that nation. In short, Russia is pretty much a totalitarian state, of which, the privileged few reap all the benefits, and of which, the policing arm of the state keeps the general population of that nation, in its thrall.
For those that love Karl Marx, and his philosophy, it must be stated, that Marx would not recognize Russia as being communistic at any point in its history, and by virtue of the fact that Russia had decades to effect communism, but never accomplished such, or even ever put into place any of the necessary steps to do so, reflects that Russia was not ever communistic.
The greatest disappointment that Russia so represents in today’s world, is that, despite the fact that Russia arguably has the greatest amount of wealth so contained within its natural resources in the world, and of the fact that historically it has had great artists, great literature, great scientists, and great inventions; that what we so find is that despite all of that historical greatness as well as all of its vast natural resources, that Russia in total, has to be looked upon as having accomplished surprisingly little of merit over the last 100 years. For instance, Canada, represents, in a lot of respects, a nation that has similar demographics to Russia in the sense of its large land mass, as well as also having an abundance of very valuable natural resources; yet Canada’s per capita Purchasing Power Parity GDP is nearly four times as great as that of Russia. The fact that Russia fails so poorly against Canada, reflects a nation that is mismanaged, along with that nation seemingly being incapable of providing the necessary infrastructure and wherewithal to improve the opportunity as well as the lot for the whole of its people.
In reality, what we so find in Russia, is that despite their revolution successfully deposing and thereby replacing the Tsars that once ruled the roost, that the upshot is that in its structure and in its governance, that Russia, in modern times, is essentially by its actions and in its authority basically more in accordance and in harmony with what it was back when it was under the domain of those same Tsars. In other words, by any objective reasoning, Russia today has far more in common with the Tsars, then it has with what communism is supposed to actually represent; signifying indeed, that to label Russia as communistic, now or in the past, is both misguided and wrong.