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For the Russians, of all people, to criticize British atrocities is sheer hypocrisy. Stalin alone killed multiple times more people in his 25 year reign than the British did in several centuries, inclusive of their atrocities in Ireland and South Africa, not to mention the deaths of 10,000 American soldiers in prison ships during our War for Independence. At least three million died during the Ukrainian famine, which unlike the Irish potato famine was not an act of nature, but a deliberate policy to exterminate the kulaks by confiscating all the food. Untold millions of Russians and other nationalities were worked or starved to death in the Gulag Archipelago. Tens of thousands of Christian (mainly Orthodox) clergy were killed, many in the most cruel and inhumane manner possible. Then there were the mass rapes, murders, and looting of eastern Germany by the Soviet hordes in 1945. Their treatment of Poles, Czechs, and others, while less severe, was most brutal, with mass murders of anti-Communists, looting, and rape.

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.

The Russians should just shut up and deal with their own sordid history, particularly from 1918 to 1991, before criticizing Britain or America.

There is a term in Psychology known as "Projection" -- it's like when racist liberals and elites in the U.S. falsely accuse President Trump of racism, because they are too in denial to look at their OWN selves in the mirror.

I found Ms. Zakharova's briefing incredible in its sheer length, yes -- but probably the most obvious case study of suppressed guilt and using projection to cope.

Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people subconsciously employ in order to cope with difficult feelings or emotions. Psychological projection involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions onto someone else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings.