One more thing, understanding Russian thinking and world view is a difficult task. Like the Middle East we tend to think everyone thinks like us, have values of life, liberty and pursuit of freedom. They don’t
The example I give is most American moms could never conceive of celebrating their child blowing themselves up in the name of God, so they look for some other reason, racism, society, mental illness.
Likewise with many Russians their mind set of russia against the world, Russia is the third Rome, and gods chosen is real and it is actively promoted
Examples, Russian othodox church, may be real to members, but it is controlled and directed by Kremlin. Leader is KGB or was if that matters.
History little if anything is mentioned of “others” involved in ww2 and aid given by US, and certainly that soviets began the war allied with Nazi Germans, that the Germans were granted access to soviet land to train and perfect tactics
Listen to RT, watch man on the street interviews where “normal “‘Russians call for the genocide of Ukranians, that Russia was attacked first
Just more of my 2 cents