Putin does not exhibit the behaviour of an "evil comminist dictator".
Putin in the videos I have seen in the last several weeks, instead shows someone shouldering a great burden, waging a war he wishes he did not have to wage.
That is my perception at least.
I am in a small minority even among my family and friends who see this. Rather than enforce their belief that I am loosing my mind, I have chosen to remain mostly quiet on the topic .
Instead, I pray everyday that the truth will appear even if little by little, through the fog of war.