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They do. For starters, famine was ended after the 1930s (outside of World War II), and prison death rates weren't astronomically high nor were prison populations particularly high either.

• As for increase in communist party membership, over four years, more than 63,000 people have become CPRF members, with most of the new recruits being young people under 30 and “people of prime working age.”.

• “We are now seeing not just nostalgia for the past, but a conscious choice by millions of citizens in favor of the socialist path of development,”

• We restored all ties with the Communist Parties of China, Vietnam, the DPRK, with India, with the Arab countries, with Latin America, with Cuba, with Venezuela, with Nicaragua.

• The expansion and astronomical growth of grassroot movements like the Inmortal Regiment. This movement grew so large that plenty of countries around the world organized a similar march. It started small until it grew in a international movement.

There are other examples, but it's clearly on the rise.