It may not have amounted to a desire to save communism itself, but there was enough opposition to the "shock therapy" liberalization being imposed after its fall that Yeltsin had to shell parliament at the U.S.'s behest in 1993. We got what we wanted, and the Russians got 10 years of kleptocratic asset stripping whose consequences led directly to Putin.
But that was too late by then. Soviet Union was done. The goal has been achieved. No one really cared about what happened to Russia after (and in a hindsight, it was a mistake - process of breaking it down into pieces, each having it's own version of history and hating each other, should have continued until what remained was safe). But of course, hindsight is always 20/20.
> process of breaking it down into pieces, each having it's own version of history and hating each other, should have continued until what remained was safe
I really wish you would understand at some point that such statements play right into Putin's hands, and are one of the major reasons why he's still in power and has no realistic prospects of losing it. Until you do, there will be no lasting peace.
