Why do you resort to a fallacy when the info does not fit your narrative?
Also, you do realise that countries were occupied by Russia, right? The occupying government wanted teritory, power, and expansion and did what they needed to to maintain the human capital (workforce). It's absurd to suggest that anything the occupant ever did was for the actual benefit of the people it occupied or that it cared about their well-being. To the very end the Russians did not want to withdraw and lose that teritory, even killed independence activists on exit. You probably think you're a leftie, but what you support is fascism, only called differently.