(...) After all, we often use language in this way to achieve vividness of expression. "In 1940, the Russians entered Latvia" sounds simpler and clearer in terms of attitude than "the USSR military entered", doesn't it? Even though we know that "children of all nations" worked within the occupation structures. In 1968, the Czechs most likely called the invaders "Russians", although there was no shortage of Ukrainians among them, a fact recently noted with bitter irony by Kyiv-based poet and translator Olga Bragina (the author's grandmother was indignant that they were not met with flowers in Prague). In short, there is nothing unusual about the imprecise use of language.