My grandmother is a profoundly Soviet person. She's lived in the US for nearly half her life now, after decades in Kyiv and being born & raised in St. Petersburg.
For as long as I can remember, she's thought I was hysterical about Putin.
I think her view represents a lot of the Soviet diaspora. My grandfather and I would lament what he's doing, the crackdowns on dissidents - and she would say things were being blown out of proportion by the West.
"I'm buying you a one-way flight to Moscow" became a frequent joke
