Of course he did. Modern far-right and right-populist parties and politicians (Drumpf included) are playing the exact same role communists did in the 1950s.
It is amazing that Russia has once again become the leading proponent of Reactionary politics, just like it was during the late 18th and 19th century, from inciting slavic sectarianism in foreign countries to promoting and propping up the far right across Europe.
Amazing that as we get further and further away from the breakup of the USSR, those 70 years look more and more like the super-imposed aberation they were, as opposed to the natural state of affairs it had seemingly come look like by the 1980's. Of course even doing that period the same type of stuff happened just done in the name of the people instead of the Tsar/Slavic unity or in this case Russian interest or whatever they would call it now. If that is not a stunning indictment of the failure of Communism, nothing is. Marxism was suppose to erase such nationalist inclinations.