>>13936
> mimicking
Exactly, mimicking visual attributes like flag or rhetoric.
If we look a bit deeper than that, in 1917 old institutions were destroyed, a lot of people (including whole upper class) were killed or fled. 1991 can't be compared to that.
So current state is naturally descendant of Soviet Union. Since then it changed a lot, mostly in better direction, but still it's rather RSFSR than pre-revolutionary Russia. And anyway, decades were lost in vain, that can't be undone.
>>13945
This but unironically.