Seems like a caricature rather than someone that’s actually around.

I really don’t see anyone on lemmy at least being like ‘no Putin is good actually.’

One example, I was reading a hexbear (allegedly tankie central) thread a while back where they were shitting on the CPRF for receiving praise from Putin for their support of the SMO. (ie saying that they were losers that lenin would have had shot, and that they’re not communist)