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Topic:
Enabling Totalitarianism
Country:
Russia
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Article ID:
40
Title:
An Untold Story of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Author:
Daniel Finkelstein
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Source:
The Atlantic
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My mother survived Hitler’s crimes; my father survived Stalin’s. Yet only one of those leader’s nations ever faced justice...the long silence over the Soviets’ crimes had its consequences...The point is that there has simply never been any reckoning over what the Soviets did. (Even a belated acknowledgment of the Katyn massacre came without an apology.) They have never been forced to see what they did as shameful. This vacuum of historical truth and accountability has allowed Vladimir Putin to write his own version of Russian and Ukrainian history. That in turn has helped him justify, at least to himself, a new war against the people of my father’s city.
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