Especially after Ukrainians, who faced a choice of either getting shot by the Soviets, or getting shot by the Nazis.
Yup, 8 million Ukrainians (at least) were liquidated by Stalin in Holodomor-—a forgotten holocaust-—no museums, few books, not taught in our schools-—almost completely forgotten.
Actually, that was true for a lot more people than Ukrainians. Just about everybody in the eastern half of Europe, for example.
I think only those who have refused to participate in evil despite great risk to their own lives have the moral right to denounce those who failed such a test.
Unfortunately, most of these people were promptly killed, the risk being quite real, and in my experience the relatively few survivors are not particularly likely to do the denouncing.
There is something truly repugnant about people who have never been faced with an existential moral decision piling on scorn against those who have.
You don’t get the point? Then justice for the victims means nothing and all is forgotten. No. The killers shouldn’t have the right to die peacefully in their sleep. Their victims didn’t.