WWII VE Day political tussles cut both ways

The European Union has said that any "candidate states" that attend Russia's Victory Day (known in the US as VE Day because of the ongoing Pacific War that Russia jumped into belatedly three months later) will be excluded from further EU consideration.

Isn't this confirmation that the EU is more and more the European political adjunct of NATO?

At the same time, doesn't this expose more and more the hypocrisy of the EU not giving Turkey/Turkiye official candidate status?

Yes and yes.

At the same time, for tankies and tankies 2.0 that celebrate the effort of the USSR under Glorious Comrade, Vozhd and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, as shown by all the Soviet war dead? (Stalin may have been iffy about being called Vozhd as it's a direct equivalent of Führer or Duce.)

Both the civilian and military deaths could have been halved if you eliminate both of those. Even with the Red Army purges, better prep for the invasion could have been cut by at least one quarter if not one third. 

And, per the blue lines, if adjusted, that means the USSR would have had lower deaths, by percentage of population, than did Germany. As is, the USSR is below both Poland and Lithuania.

And, of course, we haven't even mentioned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that gave Stalin more than 18 months to prepare, and that left Britain holding the bag for more than a year after the fall of France. Nor have we mentioned the Red Army's struggles in invading "its half" of Poland, or against Finland in the Winter War, that gave Stalin warning he needed to speed up preparations. Nor have we talked about the repeated warnings from both spies and the British government that Barbarossa was indeed coming. Nor does Wikipedia, the image's source, make clear how much of the casualties in Poland and the Baltics was due to Hitler and how much was due to Stalin.

So, celebrate what, again, tankies? Stalin's stupidity? Stalin using human wave tactics that resemble those of Khomenei's Iran in the Iran-Iraq War? Stalin having the Politburo so cowed that, when Beria, Kaganovich et al approached him after his near-nervous breakdown, he thought it was a coup — and it should have been a coup but they were too cowed? Stalin, like Hitler, following Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Idea" and thinking that if he believed away the idea that Hitler was about to invade, it would actually go away?

Beyond that, even Stalin would admit at times that certain elements of Lend-Lease were vital to the Soviet war effort. The good old American Jeep was one. The original Jeep, with its light weight and large tires, could float over the "roads" that General Mud often left in those lands. Neither the Soviets nor the Nazis had anything similar.