The world is never short of ignorant idiots.

While I don’t necessarily agree with the commenter you are replying to - I can relate to how hard it is to separate Russia’s contributions from what is currently happening in Ukraine.

Modern Russia is fascist in all meaningful ways. This—at least emotionally—overshadows the positive contributions the country made in the past.

No facists are something entirely else. Facist Germany/Italy/Japan did worse things by multiple magnitutes

You’re right but Russia is on the same level as North Korea at this point. They’re both toxic.