You got it spot on. Similarities however run deeper: Yezhov was Stalin’s man during the great purge and did the actual dirty work, just like pringles did before 2022
Soviet prisoners would sometimes get a Lenin tattoo covering chest, because prison guards wouldn’t shoot them there. This part of graffiti is left intact for similar reasons
also it’s not a tank. it’s 152mm self-propelled howitzer 2S3 Akatsiya. driver had leg torn off by a barrel fragment, this could be just a propellant charge, without HE shell detonating
i’d only add it’s not clear what ammo was used there, or what is quality of NK shells in general. some of that NK ammo could be from soviet era, some of that could be new, maybe Kim is just clearing storage and treating russia like some third-rate insurgency that they don’t care about, like they deserve. there were some complaints about high dud rate of NK ammo, but this is solved by replacing fuzes
there’s so much of weird shit appearing in western supply as well. chinese 82mm mortars? you got it (from early cold war albanian stocks). japanese 60mm mortars from korean war era? you bet (from american stocks). major difference being that western storage is supposed to have some kind of quality control, meaning that some faulty or soon-to-be-faulty weapons will be - should be destroyed. in contrast russian army is just a hoarder