Creative Speculation

I guess much like China is now, where anyone can say "yeah but look at how they've embraced global capitalism"...but I can see China, or Vietnam or Cuba or places like that, waving a hammer-and-sickle banner around with at least a reasonable claim to good intentions and actually working toward a socialist economic system, with the understanding that everyone is forced to live under a de facto capitalist hegemony, and it would really never be possible to have "true communism" unless and until it's a unified global movement, a "one world government" and so on, the ultimate nightmare for any kind of nationalist.

But Putinists waving a hammer and sickle flag around? That's almost like MAGAts waving a U.S. flag...it doesn't make any sense to me.