This bullshit started before 2014. Hitler played the communist card though some saw through it. Only the arrogant amnesiac, the stupid and cynical will forget the Soviet sacrifice:
'Gestapo's Fortner said: "I did not attend the early interrogations of the Maximovitches, but I know Giering's men were extremely harsh with them - especially Rolf Richter, who was dealing with Anna. They used every available means of softening them up. You see, a man like Trepper, an officer in the Red Army, couldn't be blamed for working against us. He was merely doing his duty.
But Maximovitch, the son of a Tsarist general! I said to him, 'How could you, a White Russian, have agreed to help the Communists?' 'My sympathies were with the Germans,' he replied, 'until the day that I read in the newspapers that they intended to give the Ukraine its independence. I am a Russian first and last. No Russian can sit back and watch his country being dismembered.' Well, I couldn't argue with that.'
(Perrault, The Red Orchestra, p. 265)
'Gestapo's Fortner said: "I did not attend the early interrogations of the Maximovitches, but I know Giering's men were extremely harsh with them - especially Rolf Richter, who was dealing with Anna. They used every available means of softening them up. You see, a man like Trepper, an officer in the Red Army, couldn't be blamed for working against us. He was merely doing his duty.
But Maximovitch, the son of a Tsarist general! I said to him, 'How could you, a White Russian, have agreed to help the Communists?' 'My sympathies were with the Germans,' he replied, 'until the day that I read in the newspapers that they intended to give the Ukraine its independence. I am a Russian first and last. No Russian can sit back and watch his country being dismembered.' Well, I couldn't argue with that.'
(Perrault, The Red Orchestra, p. 265)