After the USSR fell, there was no accounting for the Soviet horrors committed, no lustration or truth commissions. Do not prepare only for The Hague war crime trials of Putin's officials after this war, but for every Russian to know these stories.
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Despite being utterly defeated in the Cold War & the myth of Russian humiliation popularized by Putin & his propagandists, Russia was invited to join the civilized world, aided and with its pride as a once-great power indulged. It was a huge mistake, the original sin.
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Instead of deprogramming generations of Russians and ripping out the security service structure root and branch, it was allowed to lurk in the shadows until Putin & his backers seized their chance. It cannot happen again.
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After over 20 years of revanchism and exploitation, Russian patriotism is a perverse disease, an anti-Russian fascism called Putinism. It must be confronted and destroyed so Russians and Russia can safely join the civilized world.
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I have always said that Putin's elite's looted wealth in the West should be seized and held in trust to rebuild a democratic Russia. Now it must go to rebuilding Ukraine first. Stolen money and stolen lives.
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All other former superpowers (Spain, France, UK, Germany) were at some point decisively defeated. Afterwards they adjusted their behaviour and ambition. This did not happen to Russia after 1989.
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Same happened with whole of Europe after colonization of Africa. Same happened with USA after slavery to African ppl,they just moved on like Nothing happened..so Nothing special about victims of Soviet horrors they should just move on.
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Hey Garry, a lot of things are happening in 2022 that didn't happen in 1945 and Putin is finding that out. Let's rest assured, Ukrainians will not forgive or forget these atrocities, Putin will pay, Oligarchs will pay for this bloodshed. #SlavaUkraine
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Whatever points on their mistakes in history (books) they cut it out, burn books, re-write them with modified facts because they know: PEOPLE FORGET
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Western Europe closed their eyes and pretended that this atrocities like gulag ,holodomor was nothing to compare to Nazis horrors.So they never asked for official lustration from Russia 🇷🇺 but felt with open hands for oil and gas
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There is no accounting for Mao's horrors or Pol Pot's. The list goes on...The world continues to sanction the killers.
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