Vlad himself is fucked both ways .. like little fat Kim in North Korea if or when the reckoning comes he will meet the sort of end that Ceaușescu and his wife met 30 odd years ago .. perhaps an even more unpleasant end.
The original Soviet "communists" never went away or reformed themselves into capitalists, they simply relabeled themselves, western governments swallowed the con-trick that the soviets played on them and now it has backfired.
They have started bleating and there is quite a large number of second and third generation Ukrainian offspring of those who came to the UK after ww2 and still not fully integrated these will of course speak for these new incomers and stir things.