Russia has gone through the stages of a socialist/communist revolution like those other countries and as such has had its culture infused with the symbolism and mannerism of the ideology. Russians know what it leads to but they also remember what happened to those who opposed the state so they lay low and try to watch out for themselves and their own. The wannabe-revolutionaries at e.g. American educational institutions (from university to K-12) should know better but wilfully ignore the warnings history - or 'herstory' for the most radical among them - has given them about the ideology they push. To me the latter are more dangerous than the former because they can do more damage to us in 'the western world' - what propagandistically used to be called 'the free world' [1]. They know they are abusing their positions to turn their pupils into young activists instead of teaching them the necessary skills needed for self-fulfilment. The know they are using them as pawns instead of giving them the tools they need to get along in society but they do so because they want to bring about their utopia and are convinced that can only happen once current society has been brought to its knees - they follow Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” to the letter even though it has failed miserably everywhere it has been tried but this time it will work, surely, they never tried for real.

[1] ...where it is worth remembering that the west was more free compared to the Soviet block even if it was (and increasingly is) far from 'free' in an objective sense.