In my country (and most western countries as well), there has been a cultural projection of demonizing russia and its populace since at least the end of the napoleonic war. What is progressive about helping further that project with more intellectually sound criticism of russia? I am not russian. Is that not in fact the cultural imperialism by the west that demands that even revolutionaries must use their words to further strengthen its reach?

The demand of the western left to be ever critical of revisionist and communist states before is ridiculous - culture is swamped with antagonism against them already. Its is an demand to ease western chauvinist narratives into our own. It is 2025 not 1914 - there are no "camps". It is a few states, many of which are not as independent of the us as many like to believe, against a global empire.