I'm going to try to remember the term "virtue signalling" although I'm confident that if it is used in too blatent a context it will call for a reverse blast of some kind of 'blame labelling'. It all falls under the term I'm hearing a lot: "code switching" which means to me the familiarity and use of modern cultural argots.

Meanwhile, I yield to none in my love of Russian culture, but Russians have their ways. I worked with a Russian for a couple of years and found for him the poem that got Osip Mandelstam sent to the Gulag.

The Stalin Epigram

Our lives no longer feel ground under them.
At ten paces you can’t hear our words.

But whenever there’s a snatch of talk
it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer,

the ten thick worms his fingers,
his words like measures of weight,

the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip,
the glitter of his boot-rims.

Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses
he toys with the tributes of half-men.

One whistles, another meows, a third snivels.
He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom.

He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes,
One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye.

He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.
He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home.

My co-worker read it over and sead: "If I am Stalin, for sure I send him to Gulag".