I am giving my opinion of the song, which i am entitled to do.

i have not been to russia and i hear one sided versions of the war, so i try to keep an open mind and a neutral perspective.
the best songs are imo written from personal experience, or from talking to people with personal experience.
this is what macColl did with shoals pf herring and why it is so much better a song than the polemic about the ballad of stalin. the ballad of stalin was mediocre and so imo is this effort about putin