Traditionalist Catholics love Russia and see Putin as their godfather.  Putin might have gotten his start in the KGB but his ideology has more in common with the far right and Nazism than it does with Communism.  Traditionalist type Catholics have completely adopted the alt-reich and its vile politics.  I had hours and hours of pure enjoyment on Sunday reading the meltdown on far-right Catholic websites because Putin's pet French Nazi lost in a landslide.  Look at Rorate Caeli's Twitter feed if you want a taste.