Learn the difference between xenophobia and racism, please. The difference matters for proper discussions of different topics that pertain to discrimination in general and you are clearly confusing both of them in your weak attempt at accusing someone of behaviour they never displayed while they explained a joke that is rooted in historical context.

More to the point, (as you said) being against Russian dictatorship policies and historical atrocities is neither xenophobia nor is it racism.

Everyone with a functioning frontal lobe knowns the Russian people are mostly helpless under a dictatorship that practices putting opposition (civil or political) in gulags, but one cannot just “lay down and take it” if the Russians come for them, just because you pity their situation. Criticizing dictatorships is of utmost importance, feelings be damned.

Edit: Post locked… Anyways, my point was that the joke is not racist and is rooted in history. Humour in that case is used to criticize the history of Russia’s various dictatorships and atrocities. Nothing wrong with the joke. I did mean to reply to you; so that people understand the differences between xenophobia and racism and how the joke is within important historical context, therefore is neither.