Russian President Vladimir Putin is calling for “rational conservatism” to rise and defeat the plague of radical leftism, which he compares to the cruel and asinine Bolshevism movement that once took hold over his country.

Putin made the comments while speaking at the Valdai club forum on Thursday. He does not want the wave of degeneracy that is destroying the West to do the same in his nation.

He said that “looking at what is happening in various Western countries,” it reminds him of the follies of Russia’s past. He said that support of tolerance and diversity in countries like the U.S. and Britain has reached the point of “aggressive dogmatism on the verge of absurdity.”