The difference is that while slavery ended in the 19th century many of the perpetrators of the Communist atrocities are still alive and prospering. Putin, Yeltsin and Gorbachev were all part of this vicious system and deserve to be in prison, not in power or comfortable retirement. Many of the Gulag guards and commandants are alive and well as are numerous former KGB types. Who has been tried for war crimes committed in Afghanistan? No one.
The author of this piece is right. Until the Russians come to grips with their past they have no future.
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