I think you have to keep the origin and "Deep State" of the Soviet Union in mind. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in "200 Years Together":

You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse...It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time.

Solzhenitsyn points towards the Jews, but I'm just saying that the Jews were a tool--like any other tool "They" can get hold of--and it goes one level deeper.

I forgot to mention in the original comment that WW2 was about 80% Germany vs Russia. "They" got a two-fer, because to add to what Solzhenitsyn mentions, I would say that by involving the USSR in the war, They had arranged for the slaughter of tens of millions more ethic Russians and Christians, less obviously this time. And the country also got stomped into the dirt.

So the question would be, how much of this true history is known at the highest levels of the Russian Federation? It's essentially impossible to say, and even in normal circumstances Russians play their cards extremely close to the vest. But if I had to guess, I'd say maybe a dozen or two in a very tight inner circle.

You'd have to keep it small because they simply cannot afford to be compromised. But more than that, how many people are ready to believe any of this? The percentage rounds down to zero.

And in the meantime, Putin has to try to drag along a country of 150m with it's own Deep State, and fight an enormous war against the whole of NATO (with Ukrainian triggermen), and keep BRICS going, etc, etc.

The closest I've ever seen him come to publicly admitting how much he knows was back in September 2022:

"Such a total denial of a human being, a rejection of faith and traditional values, suppression of freedom begins to look like a perverted religion, outright Satanism."

Since Satan is at the head of the faction of Elohim that's causing all the trouble, he's correct. And I think he said about as much as can be said to the general public these days.