The past is always with us but so is the future. I don’t believe in ancestral guilt. I am very proud to be an American but we do not have a moral high ground to hug to ourselves without effort.
Our morality as a Nation needs to be re-won every day just as our Constitution needs to be protected from daily attack by the left.
1991 was not that long ago. Soviet Union is not “ancestral.” And Putin is former KGB. His worldview however is hardly “former.”