It's not just that. Putin and his gang are actively pushing what is now referred to as neo-sovietism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Sovietism

Yes, but again - this more about their afforts to appeal to a certain part of domestic popularion rather than a fair attempt of rebuilding USSR.

It's more about "ice cream for 47 kopecks" rathan then anything else.

> this more about their afforts to appeal to a certain part of domestic popularion

And yet, more than a million Russian lives alone were sacrificed to make the appeal reality.

Russia, like it or not, is actively busy restoring its older glorious days and unfortunately there is no sign of them coming anywhere near to a point where they can't sustain their losses any more. They're permanently losing upwards of 1000 soldiers per day, and that's not counting the injured, only deaths.

There's no Neo-Sovietism but Duginism. It's a like an even more hardcore version of the Spanish Francoism but a la Slavic way.

They hate science and praise the Orthodox ideology with high statism. And without a country-loving science China it's just getting a luxury present for free themselves.

They will progress like crazy with very little efforth and they could buy Russian assets for scraps.