Neither Olympic nor European values. While Russia is killing the citizens of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and failing to make progress on the battlefield, the IOC thinks there is no reason to maintain 🇷🇺 suspension. Nine EU countries 🇸🇪 🇪🇪 🇳🇱 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 🇫🇮 🇩🇰 rightly appeal to defund the IOC in protest.

Back to the USSR? We all know Putin's claim that "the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." Never was his effort to reverse history clearer that when he addressed his generals as "tovarishchi", the Soviet "comrades" jargon. Link in comments