of the red-brown ideology in the 1990s was the National Salvation Front (, Front natsional'nogo spaseniya) whose membership later became integrated into modern political parties such as the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and the Communist Party of Russia. Red-brownism is most closely associated with “Red-fascism” in Western nations. Autonomous Action views the successor to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, as controlled opposition, similar to the other political parties in the Russian State Duma. Though they highlight that the Communist Party acts more opposingly to Vladimir Putin and United Russia when compared to parliamentary parties such as the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Autonomous Action labels these actions as controlled theatrics, stating that the party is merely creating “a show for the average people” in order to create an illusion of parliamentary opposition to Putin. Autonomous Action further compares the Russian Communist Party, and other leftist parties in favor of "patriotic values", a philosophy very strongly propagated by Vladimir Putin's government and almost all political parties in parliament, to the NSDAP. They state that Gennady Zyuganov, head of the CPRF, has instated the following 9 values as guiding principles for Communist Party: There is no proletariat. We need to protect ethnically Russian and patriarchal heritage. To defend the Russians, we need a strong homeland - a state. Every Russian should be a patriot. A strong family is the backbone of the state. Orthodoxy is not only the support of the state, but also the primordially Russian religion. Those who are not Orthodox are not Russian. We [the Communist Party and Russian state] must try to combine Orthodoxy and the "Soviet experience." Capitalism and private property in industry are essential. Internationalism should be understood as the expansion of the "Russian idea" into neighboring countries. All who are against the above principles are enemies of Russia. These include Trotskyists, agents of the State Department, etc. Autonomous Action, along with other far-left, anti-government groups have strongly criticized the CPRF for being hypocrites to their own ideology, refusing to remain ideologically pure to a proletariat revolution and instead diluting their values with right-wing principles in order to not be punished by the government. Autonomous Action further states that the CPRF refuses to concretely criticize Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, instead opting for "nationalistic content in a socialist wrapper". The group also states