 Some white émigrés adopted pro-Soviet sympathies, for which they were labelled "Soviet patriots".These people formed organizations such as the Mladorossi, the Evraziitsi, and the Smenovekhovtsi.One of the most notable forms of activities by Russian émigrés was building monuments to Russian war dead of World War I, which stood in marked contrast to the Soviet Union, which never built any monuments to the 2 million Russians killed between 1914-17 as the war had been condemned by Lenin as an "imperialist war".