You don’t get to bitch and moan about le evil Soviet Empire when you’ve been an enthusiastic collaborator of the American Empire since the Warsaw Pact collapsed.
All the while, it’s an advanced level of tone deaf to be talking about how evil the Soviets were to the countries whose independence movements were greatly bolstered by Soviet aid.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1686542874534354945?s=46
You lose your right to complain about ImPeRiAlIsM when you're one of the only two European countries to send troops to the initial invasion of Iraq