This year, a man in Perm, a city in the Urals, was fined 200 thousand rubles ($3,500) for reposting an article which correctly stated that the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939 in collaboration with the Nazis.
Those who don't learn from their history, are doomed to repeat it...and while there are no outright Gulags in Putin's Russia: there are definitely echoes of Stalin's repressions undermining the fabric and progress of Russian society today. As the fine the man above had to pay indiciates. -- This is just one of a string contemporary Russian acts of repression that even Orthodox Christian leaders have turned a blind eye too.
There are also a glaring lack memorials commemorating Gulag victims. And heavy restrictions placed upon the work and research of prison historians and archivists. The few memorials that do exist are heavily monitored so as not to compromise the overall Stalinist-heroic conception of the War.
America is a place where we openly discuss even the dark pages from our past and struggle to this day to overcome them. Unfortunately, we have become so self-deprecating to the point of disowning ANY credit or victory - and now ourselves tout pro-Soviet and anti-American narratives about the 20th Century. As dictated by the likes of Putin and ilk.
This is having a huge impact on our ability to forge a healthy, robust yet discerning patriotism among the populace and in confronting the challenges of our world today.
Most people who have never been to Russia or China are clueless as to the power revisionist historical narratives, which include the avoidance and denial of mass atrocities -> have in shaping their peoples' perception of the world, their political values, and their resentment towards America.
As per agreement with Hitler, when Poland was defeated the USSR invaded what was left after German forces stopped along a per-determind line.