Next thing you know and these Putin propagandists and apologists here, useful idiots, I figure, rather than paid lackeys, will be explaining away Gulag.
Russia is a nation with a history of cruelty and beauty. People try to read it like a Western country - it isn’t one. It has more in common with Constantinople than with Rome. Our liberal understanding of the world has always registered a limited effect on Russia.
“Next thing you know,,,,,,will be explaining away Gulag.”
Exactly, then along will come the bunch that will explain to us how the Germans were actually liberating Ukraine from the Soviets. Then someone even will suggest we attack the Russians to back them down militarily. These threads do follow a pattern.