It was violent compared to what?

Very violent lol, jfc get a grip. The Khmer Rouge was violent. Krystalnacht was violent. The last spasms of communism died peacefully shitting it's bed in it's drunken stupor.

https://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article13853749/Wie-die-Sowjets-sich-buchstaeblich-zu-Tode-soffen.html

And you want to return to communism, but daddy Putie won't let you.

You traded a gaggle of soviet oligarchs for a tyrant oligarch and whine and moan about how things were better. Yeah well if you had built a better country you might benefit from the rest of the world, but instead Putie decided to build a petrocracy on fossil fuels.

and then doubled down on it again and again for decades.

That's just so fucking dumb in so many directions I don't even know where to begin.

'very violent' I can't tell if you're lying, uneducated, or just deluded. either way you're incorrect.