>>1Putin and many others in the Russian government like to push anti-fascist/anti-nazi rhetoric. But they're playing the long game. Part of it is so they can save face and not demoralize their own citizens when it comes to their "false victory" in WW2. The other side is that they understand that the European Union is run by former communists, just as their own country is.
If they were to show their true pro-nationalist, anti-communist sentiments, it would only cause more division between them and Western Europe. They have to say things to try to put a divide between Western Europe and the real Jewish communist empire known as the United States.