Part of the Russian strategy is to make themselves apparently morally superior to the West, so they can dress their actions with some moral justification:
Prophecy of Sister Elena Aielo 1959: The Madonna
" Russia will march upon all the nations of Europe, particularly Italy, and will raise her flag over the Dome of St. Peter's. Italy will be severely tired by a great revolution, and Rome will be purified in blood for its many sins, especially those of impurity! The flock is about to be dispersed and the Pope must suffer greatly!"
1961: Good Friday
"People pay no attention to my motherly warnings, and thus the world is falling headlong evermore into an abyss of iniquity. Nations shall be convulsed by terrible disasters, causing destruction and death.
" Russia, spurred on by Satan, will seek to dominate the whole world and, by bloody revolutions, will propagate her false teachings throughout all the nations, especially in Italy. The Church will be persecuted and the Pope and the priests shall suffer much."
http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2011/09/blessed-elena-aiello-mystic-stigmatic.html"In the prophecy of Zachary, the Armenian Jєω who converted to the Catholic Faith, published in 1854, was the edited text of the prophecy of the revelations that he received from God. Father Fattecelli compiled the prophecies in a book called “Day of Anger: The Hand of God Upon an Empire”. That Empire is described in its geographical dimensions as occupying the space of what is the Soviet Union and China. That is the Empire that will use great guile and deception as we had in the period of Detente, and the glasnost and perestroika of Gorbachev before the scheduled demolition of the Soviet Union.(In 1989 Gorbachev was quoted speaking to the Politburo saying the following " In October 1917 we parted with the old world rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road." He also said "Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our aim is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.")
And then there would be the war of “the struggle of the strong against the strong”. This Empire of the North, consisting of Russia and China, will go to war against North America. And this Nineteenth Century text says they will fire their missiles on North America and North America will fall and be conquered and brought into bondage. The next phrase is the most frightful thing of all. It is then that Zachary says in this text published in 1854, “…and then the whole world fell under the dominion of the first born of hell.”