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Not sure what you mean by "a fascist economy" (capitalism?).
It's not support for Russia, but opposition to Western warmongering. Most of us on here live in and are citizens of the US or Europe. Of course our political positions are in regard to our own nations' policies. Liberals act like Russia's aim is to take over all of Europe and then the world. This is the point of the endless Nazi comparisons. Once you realize this is ridiculous, that Russia has neither the desire nor the capacity for world domination, the constant brinksmanship by NATO appears irresponsible and unacceptable. Russia is undemocratic and dominated by political reaction because it was pillaged in the 90s by global capital. After that, the way to turn it into a liberal democracy would have been to allow it to enter NATO when Putin asked and make it an equal partner in the world economy.
So the question isn't "why are communists supporters of a right wing capitalist state" so much as "why do the capitalists so fervently oppose a right wing capitalist state?" The answer from communists is that they've gotta have a war to keep the gears of the economy turning, and Russia is happy to play the heel for now.
Russia doesn’t even have “imperial” ambitions in Eastern Europe! Any attack on Finland, the Baltics, or Poland will trigger WW3 and clearly Putin has zero interest in that (as any halfway rational person would); not to mention he has never even signaled interest in doing that. Putin has lead Russia for over 25 years now. In that time, there’s just the SMO and a much lower scale war in Georgia that Putin has gotten Russia involved in (there’s Syria too but that’s more complicated). Should we go over the list of countries the US has attacked in the last 25 years?
There's also Crimea.