This is the culmination of the liberal "both sides" thing. It's the chickens come home to roost. Liberals have spent decades now convincing themselves the Soviets and the Nazis were the same thing, but to the ones who wanted to be nuanced or seem smart would always say the Soviets were worse. Libs are so far up their own butt with acting like tortured geniuses, beset by a complicated world full of nuance. "Oh to be struck in a situation where I must collaborate with monsters. I have been forced by nuance into this SS uniform I chose to wear and I know what it represents."

However there can be nuance for anything associated with Russia. Liberals view Russia as a unique abyss in human history. It's Nyarlathotep himself, inconceivable and impossible to negotiate with. It's always bad in every single historical event, even when it's seemingly doing something good, it's still bad. That's the conclusion they've spun themselves into believing