Just like Democrats ignored the Soviet Union’s mistreatment of its own people at home and in their satellite nations in Eastern Europe. You couldn’t turn on the TV in the eighties without watching lib Dems slobbering all over Russians. Remember Phil Donahue’s lovefest with Soviet propagandist Vladimir Pozner, and how about the aptly named Gorbasms (Thanks Rush) the left had when that man landed in DC. The Democrats constantly trashed Ronald Reagan and clung on to Mikhail Gorbachev as the savior who would save the world. The Dems don’t want to talk about any of this, do they? Let’s not get started about the numerous Democrats who spied for the Soviets. Putin has a mountain of documents showing Democrats and their association with his nation as the USSR and now Russia!
That was back when the Russians were communists.
Now that they are apostates the left hates them.