The ideological war embedded in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gained another chapter with Kiev’s successful counteroffensive that retook almost the entire Kharkiv region this month. The ball of the moment are the white crosses that started to be painted on the tanks and armored vehicles used by the Ukrainians in the attacks. They resemble the insignia used by the Wehrmacht, the Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1933-45) on similar vehicles — planes had it on the fuselage and wings, with the more typical swastika on the tail. “Armored column with the purest crosses of the Wehrmacht”, wrote the Russian military...