Of course, someone might ask "uawchild, you are a known Russian apologist, possibly a paid troll living in St. Petersburg, WHY don't you hold RUSSIA to the same standards of facing up to ITS past, you useful idiot and fellow traveler!!111"
OK, fair question. lol
I do think Russia should own up to the dark periods of its history also. There's been a start of doing so during the Gorbachev and Yeltsen periods, but it's slowed down under Putin as he tries to pump up Russian patriotism.
Still though, even under Putin, Russia has started owning up to its past.
"Russian parliament admits guilt over Polish massacre
Symbolic acknowledgment of culpability over Katyn murders in 1940 signals Russia's willingness to face up to its past
In a symbolic admission of guilt, Russia's parliament has declared that Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, in one of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century.
Today's acknowledgment of Stalin's personal culpability over the Katyn massacre comes amid a cautious thaw between Moscow and Warsaw, whose recent relations have been thorny at best. It was also seen as a sign that Russia may finally be ready for muted self-scrutiny over its totalitarian past.
Mikhail Gorbachev admitted in 1990 that the NKVD was to blame for the massacre, after a half-century of the Soviets blaming it on Nazi troops. However, there has never been a formal statement which implicates the Soviet leadership in such explicit terms.
Officials in Warsaw greeted the declaration positively. "It is a good step, an important sign," Poland's speaker of parliament, Grzegorz Schetyna, told reporters. It would ensure a "better atmosphere" for Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Warsaw next week, he added."
and this:
"In the wake of the crash, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, made unequivocal statements about Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre and urged reconciliation. "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/26/russian-parliament-guilt-katyn-massacre
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