A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 56% of Ukrainians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, while only 23% thought it was beneficial

https://news.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx

64 per cent of Russians think life was better under USSR, 69% of Azerbaijan , 71% of Armenia

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/701026/russians-life-better-soviet-union-ussr-sixty-four-percent

There’s a reason they have to explicitly delegalize promoting communism

There’s no reason to make it illegal if it’s unpopular. Foreign interference will happen regardless if it’s legal or not, so that can’t be used as an excuse. So they should make it legal since it’d fail anyways no problem right? Come on make it legal let us own ourselves and show the world how unpopular we are.