That's not Communism. Communism is when there's one single political party that rules with total authority and owns and finances everything. A bit of theatre protectionism does not a communism make.
It is the influence of communism and protectionism. Not sure which one is worst. France is full of both and had always close ties to Russia - they sympathies with them since 1920 (the early days of the worst disease of XXth century - communism). Communism killed more people, and enslaved even more, then any other disease.