Why do the three partitions of Poland come to mind? Also, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
(... media continue to echo government talking points about “Vladimir Putin’s aggression” and Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine.” ...)
Okay, I’ll bite, in the Russian alternate universe, what are these to be called, if not the terms in the quotes.
Oh right, de-Nazification.
A pox on both their houses, I would say.