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It very much does.
I think people tend to confuse Russian irredentism with wanting to bring back communism when all they really want is the USSR's borders. Which were, mind you, largely the Russian Empire's borders.
If the Russian oligarchy is going to force a return to their roots I feel like they'd just bring back the monarchy.
There certainly is a socialist movement in Russia that wouldn't mind returning to a socialist state but there are very few who actually want to return to a totalitarian one, and if it's not totalitarian it's not really what people mean by the USSR, is it?
I was talking more about wanting the prestige back