As a child of Estonian refugees who fled the Soviet occupation in September of 1944, I can tell you that my parents, who were infants at the time, would have been considered by the Soviet Union and by its propaganda machine as being—similar to the tweet you're referring to—fascists or neo-Nazis simply for escaping Russian occupation and repression.
That line of propaganda was used throughout the Cold War to smear anyone who was critical of the Soviet Union and the occupation and repression of the republics occupied by the Soviet Union. That narrative has been resuscitated, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, by the Putin regime to label anyone who is critical of his regime.
The problem with that narrative, as you might expect, is that it marginalizes those who are targeted by it. With regard to the Ukrainian community, the entire community is smeared with this paintbrush and it's intended to silence them and stigmatize them so that when the Ukrainian community speaks up, the hope is that these labels will stick to its people and that the Canadian government will not pay attention to this community and its voice. That is the core of the problem.