Modern Russia's elite and government are about as Marxist as a billionaire cosplaying as a factory worker for a photo op. Marxism is about the abolition of class hierarchies, worker control of production, and a stateless, moneyless society. Putin's Russia? It's an oligarch-run, state-capitalist machine where wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few, and the state operates more like a mafia than a workers' paradise.

Instead of "dictatorship of the proletariat," they’ve got a dictatorship of the oil tycoons and ex-KGB buddies. Instead of "seizing the means of production," they privatized them into the hands of a few ultra-rich insiders. It's not Marxism—it's authoritarian crony capitalism wrapped in Soviet nostalgia.

as for the PRC, thats simply a similar version of state controlled capitalism, not "traditional communism" its just rebranding. nothing like what marx describes in action, unless this would be considered the necessary evil portion of the grand master plan by the powers that be, to honour a dead author and create a post scarcity communist utopia.well.... i find that hard to believe, but if the people under it believe in it, i guess thats enough for them to keep the gravy train on its tracks a bit longer.