Though Russia did need to gain their own victory against their aggressors at that time, they took the opportunity to then oppress and take over other lands as was attempted by them.
WW2 marked for them the beginning of when they became a version of Hitler with their own behavior on many other countries IMO.
Lithuania thinks the EU is just like Communism.
"Though Russia did need to gain their own victory against their aggressors at that time, they took the opportunity to then oppress and take over other lands as was attempted by them.
WW2 marked for them the beginning of when they became a version of Hitler with their own behavior on many other countries IMO."
Good sentiment but as a mater of fact, the Kremlin had liquidated 12 million between 1921 and the rise of Hitler. And Hitlers rise was possible only because of hysteria in
Germany to the liquidation of hundreds of thousands of Mennonites by the Kremlin.
http://colley.co.uk/garethjones/soviet_articles/holodomor_letters.htm
"...WW2 marked for them the beginning of when they became a version of Hitler..."
True, except that they were even worse than Hitler.
Tyrants are the same no matter what name you give them.