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This is a bizarre take, even by PugJesus standards.
It would be like saying, "Oh, you claim to hate Nazism, yet you like West (or East) Germany which is still recovering from the effects of Nazism. Curious."
Russia isn't socialist to anyone who has developed object permanence. There's no hypocrisy in someone hating socialism and liking Russia, because Russia isn't socialist.
The only reason I can think why anyone would call Russia socialist is if their worldview still revolves around Cold War anti-communism and they haven't figured out how to adjust or adapt their mental frameworks or rhetorical points since then. Which seems to include a fair number of confused liberals, apparently.
Another great demonstration of missing the point.
Oh, well thanks for the explanation, now I understand.
Fine, I'll repeat myself:
That's still complete nonsense. The Nordic countries also have publically owned industries, most notably, the oil industries responsible for much of their wealth. There's as much of a case for them being socialist as there is for Russia, which is to say, not much of one at all.
But to cite Russia's past socialism as a reason to call it socialist now is by far the most absurd thing about this meme and your argument. The reason that socialist government doesn't exist anymore is because it was destroyed and replaced by the current government. You might as well call the US monarchist because it used to be a British colony. It's completely insane.
Since reading comprehension is apparently in short supply on your end of things, let me help you out one last time:
So... you're owning the right by pointing out that they don't misinterpret something you think they should?
This take was a miss, sorry.
Sorry, buddy, if you want any more help figuring this out, you're gonna have to go ask a teacher; I don't have the patience for it.