Japan is now a democracy. Russia was first an ally of Germany in WW2. Together, they invaded and partitioned Poland.
Russia was first a would-be ally of Western Europe until it was excluded from the Munich agreement…in which France UK and Italy worked out the division of Czechoslovakia with Hitler…. after being excluded from this process,Russia ( which had offered to assist Czechs against Hitler territory demands and been declined) …..excluded from Western bartering with Hitler now known as the Munich Betrayal…worked out its own European interest sphere and Polish territory division agreement with Hitler ….a strategic defense and self-interest arrangement…but an agreement Hitler ultimately betrayed
Its never as simple as Russophobes try to make it seem
“Russia was first an ally of Germany in WW2. Together, they invaded and partitioned Poland.”
And your beloved Ukraine is still holding on to the stolen lands. Why won’t they do the right thing and give them back to Poland? Ukraine is just as guilty as Russia here.