Memes

I do think that, yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Public discussion of the famine was banned in the Soviet Union until the glasnost period initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.[12] Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine, 33 other UN member states, and the European Parliament as a genocide against the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government. In 2008, the Russian State Duma condemned the Soviet regime "that has neglected the lives of people for the achievement of economic and political goals"

Russia's political and economic power over the rest of the Soviet Union constituted what I would call an imperial relationship. And I'm not alone in thinking this. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has tried more and more desperate measures to keep control of those countries they used to rule over.