Well, after all, there was a documentary about it.
The world-citizen journalists - screen and print - who give politicians their cues issue free passes to all of that lot (and the Islammunists as well). But cut slack for a bunch of octogenarian Ukranians that fought Stalin? No way! Hound 'em all to cardiac infarctions and let Marx sort 'em out!
(The last line needed to be accompanied by leftist spittle, but I don't know the HTML command for it.)