This is why WW2 is still referred to as the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War in Russia. Russians are just fine with the fact they fed the Nazi war machine and dismembered Poland in concert with Hitler. Should it be any surprise they don’t have a problem doing the same to Ukraine?
That’s certainly contradictory. Communists are supposed to be internationalist and not nationalist (i.e. “patriotic”). Gotta love doublethink.