It’s incredibly common tankie propaganda to depict Russia as somehow returning to, and defending, a modern form of socialism. Which many tankies eat up eagerly since the modern Russian state descends from the Soviet one, and Russia was (up until 2 months ago) the largest enemy of western capitalist/liberal democracies.

Arguably the air force was also just too scared of flying wings to give them the development they needed rather than the tech being unsolvable at the time. It’s a shame that none of the prototypes were preserved

That’s already a thing it’s called homeopathic medicine