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Here, Ukrainian General Zaluzhny, then Chief and commanding General of the Army awards a WWII German Army style Knight's Cross to the leader of Neo-Nazi paramilitary group Right Sector, as both pose before a portrait of WWII Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera.
Your delusions regarding Soviet communists appear to leave out a major component. That would be the Ukrainians. The USSR included both Russians and Ukrainians.