From https://www.theblaze.com/news/putin-biden-democrats-soviet-communists
Russian President Vladimir Putin favorably compared presidential candidate Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to Soviet communism in an interview with the Rossiya TV channel released Wednesday.
Putin once again denied that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. election and pledged to work with whomever wins the 2020 election, Newsweek reported. But he favorably remarked on the Democratic Party's ideology, comparing it to the old Soviet Union's Communist Party, and said those shared values may be a "basis for developing contacts" with Biden should he win the White House.
"The Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to social democratic ideas," Putin said. "And it was from the social democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved."