I see. In what way did the 20,000 Poles shot in the head by the Kremlin at Katyn “provoke” Moscow? History shows us over and over that Russia’s neighbors merely existing is all the “provocation” that Russian chauvinists need to mass murder them. Recent events in Ukraine fit precisely into this history.
What Stalin did was no joke I read all three volumes of “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn as hated as Putin is by the Neocons for “Russian nationalism”.