Then go read about Putin like you have been told.
Not just the stuff that praises him. All of it. Don't engage here on the topic because we are pointing to the same body of evidence.
If you don't want to do your homework, stay out of these discussions.
I can point you in the direction of the information, I can't understand it for you. If you read about the former KGB agent that has been using the dictatorship play book for a couple decades and can't figure out how someone like Jill Stein is a patsy, I don't have the crayons.