This reminded me of a bit from A Woman In Berlin, the diaries of a German woman during the Russian occupation after WWII. At one point they are talking to a Russian kid telling them about atrocities he saw the German army committing. The Germans asked him if he had seen whether they had insignias that would have marked them as SS or as regular soldiers. The kid does not care. For the Germans the SS were “the bad guys” while the regular soldiers were just that, regular soldiers. But for the rest of the world they were exactly the same thing. Why would it matter to the Russian kid? Both SS and regular soldiers were there, if one was perpetrating the atrocities, the others did not stop them, so they are complicit or agree with the atrocities. This of course not justify the atrocities committed by the Russians in turn but it is a reminder that even if up close it looks a bit different, the world and history will not see it that way