It is also to be remembered that it was the Brits who instituted the first concentration camps during the Boer War - thousands of women and children died from starvation, neglect and disease. During the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after WW2 Goering (head of the concentration system) said he got the idea from the Brits.
It would only mean something if a person in Zakharova’s position would give an account of the crimes of Russia and the Soviet Union.
Unlike the Nazis, most of whose leaders were executed or sentenced to long prison terms, the Communists never faced judgment for their crimes. Most Soviet leaders died in their own beds, living off generous pensions. Ditto for the Eastern European Communist leaders, with a few exceptions, like Ceausescu.
The Russians should just shut up and deal with their own sordid history, particularly from 1918 to 1991, before criticizing Britain or America.
ousands of women and children died from starvation, neglect and disease.
False.
There's actually another claim from the same era of being the first concentration camps: Spain in Cuba.