Some better examples might be Arabic (might add in Turkish and Farsi given the actions of Erdoğan and Khamenei) as the troubles in the Middle East are far more recent (and still ongoing today given disputes like the state of Israel and such).

But yeah, the vandalism helps almost no one, not even you gain much outside of a feeling of superiority to Russians while also making things A LOT more complex as a mapper (think of the history of entities which take longer to load if can't betrieved due to timeout all thanks to the vandalism).