But to cite Russia’s past socialism as a reason to call it socialist now is by far the most absurd thing about this meme and your argument.

Since reading comprehension is apparently in short supply on your end of things, let me help you out one last time:

every reason to mistake Russia as the product of ‘socialism’

yet (correctly) identify it as the kind of non-socialist traditionalist shithole they’d love to live in.

To them, ‘socialist’ just means ‘gives LGBT people basic rights’.