Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly framed Russia’s war in Ukraine as a fight against Nazism, portraying the government in Kyiv as a modern-day extension of the historic Nazi threat. While the immense suffering inflicted on Soviet citizens by Nazi Germany is well documented, critics say the Russian state has increasingly sidelined public discussion of repression carried out by Soviet authorities against their own people. “Any reminder of the crimes of the Russian state is very inconvenient for the current authorities,” historian Nikita Sokolov, now based in Germany, told The NYT. “A victorious people can only have a victorious history...
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