“Ukraine, in snub to Moscow, to adopt British war-time symbol, ditch Soviet war name”
Which can be classified as “the last great act of defiance.”
Noting Putin or his Freeper fan club of misguided dolts can say will make Ukrainians prefer the return of Soviet authoritarianism under the moron Putin. He may be able to threaten nuclear war and scare bed-wetting liberals but he cannot change the hearts and minds of those who’d prefer a free and self governing republic to foreign Putinist domination. Yeah, I know, Putinistas, only fags and Nazis, in your mind, don’t want to let Putin run their lives.
Going on hard against communism, or soft against Nazism? “The Great Patriotic War” supposes that fighting on the side of the Soviets, Britain and the United States was patriotic. But the Ukraine had a lot of collaborationist and Nazi wanna-bes. And Russia argues that the backbone of the new junta includes a lot of people who glorify the anti-Soviet but pro-Nazi fighters of WWII. Contrarily, “World War II” is a morally neutral name.