This is a very idealistic and uneducated take. In no way is the KPRF "controlled opposition".

They didn't support the SMO only because the Russian government declared it, they supported anti-fascist intervention in Ukraine to protect the Russian speaking population from the Maidanite Neo-Nazis long before the Russian government came around to the idea. The communists were lobbying for this for years while the liberal Putin government was still being fooled by the West's false promises and sham negotiations. This reflected a real desire from the Russian people to intervene and help their brethren suffering under fascist bullets and bombs.

The SMO is fundamentally not imperialist. That is just a very shallow and incorrect assessment, ignorant of the reality on the ground and incorrectly analyzing the world geopolitical situation. It is about actively pushing back against imperialism, directly challenging and halting NATO imperialist expansion for the first time since 1991.

The KPRF very much do in fact engage in worker organizing and participate in labor struggles, and put forward political demands on behalf of the working class. What they don't do is commit the ultra-leftist error of assuming that the conditions are more advanced than they actually are. Russia is not in a revolutionary situation right now, the masses would not support that, and right now all that provoking a revolutionary conflict would do is play right into the hands of the imperialist West that has been desperately seeking Russia's final destruction.

They would prop up reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces, stirring ethnic and religious conflict, then they would directly and through their Ukrainian fascist and other proxies in the region (Poland, Finland, etc.) militarily intervene under the pretext of "stabilizing the situation" and "securing the nuclear weapons", Russia's neighbors would annex territory based on irredentist historical grudges, and NATO would create puppet states that they could easily control on Russian territory, like they did when they destroyed Yugoslavia, to exert military control and extract Russia's resources.

And i'm sorry but it is very ignorant to say that the KPRF doesn't fight against fascist forces or doesn't push back against monarchism. This shows that you do not have any idea what the KPRF actually do and say. It is correct to criticize their tailist attitude on certain cultural issues, but it would be absurd to expect that they completely denounce Orthodox religion as a whole. Just as it would be absurd for a communist party in Latin America to completely reject Catholicism or a communist party in the Muslim world to reject Islam. That would entirely alienate them from the masses.

You and i might not like it, but the reality is that there just is not the same anti-clerical mood in Russia right now as there was in 1917.

A communist party has to operate within the real material and cultural conditions that exist. It is not 1917 and the conditions are not the same. The world dynamics are drastically different, the internal domestic dynamics in Russia are drastically different. To blindly try to impose 1917's solutions on 2026 would be a recipe for failure. It is a common tactic of counter-revolutionary sabotage to use ultra-leftism and accusations (from the real controlled opposition which portrays itself as radical and leftist but is really just wreckers) of insufficient radicalism to goad communists into commiting fatal errors. Don't fall for it.

Support our communist comrades in Russia. There is no other communist force in Russia, or in any other European country for that matter, that has more popular support and better chance of actually gaining and exercising some real political power, even if they do not control the state yet.