He's ex KGB and I'll bet he would love to have a reason to bring back communism.

In one sense yes, but I don't really think it was really about "communism" then, and it isn't now. It's about centralised autocracy. Back in the Cold War it borrowed some of the rhetoric and trappings of communism or socialism. This time round it'll be dressed up as some kind of capitalism. Once it called itself feudalism. But those labels aren't too relevant. It's always about power.