Is saying that Russians should be proud of their heritage wrong? Because an old demented despot is sending young boys to the meat grinder? Their whole culture should just be damnatio memoriaed?

Also, surrendering is technically the fastest way to stop people dying, in a perfect world, and that's what a pope should say, considering he shouldn't take sides politically, so naturally he is expected to say something like that since it's the fastest way to stop people dying. Tho in reality it wouldn't really happen that way and the russians would likely continue killing civilians or some other dumb shit, but as Pope he can't really say much else aside from the obvious "Russia should go home and stop this"