Fascist has been degraded into a general buzzword nowadays. The only thing Russia nowadays that's in common which fascists is a mild imperialistic tendency that a lot of fascists had (Mussolini and his Reborn Roman Empire and Hitler and his Third Reich and while I would necessarily called the Japanese empire fascists, they were definitely imperialistic). Putins tryna put the Soviet union back together, call them out for what they really are. He's already got all the trademarks with classics such as silencing political opposition, a well oiled propaganda machine that's been working rather well, a stagnated af and now crippled economy, government funded "Social programs" that the elites drain money from because the basic citizen never mattered to them and a lot more. Historically commies were a whole hell of a lot worse than fascists ever were and fascism rarely ever lasted. No, not like commies which have always been the evil that keeps on coming back. You snuff out a commie Dictator and the roots of indoctrination they've spread abroad cause another one to spring up, it's kinda funny really, if only people payed attention in history class we could avoid these messes but like they say. History tends to repeat itself.