Oh I will mind Germany and every other nation that whitewashes its own history of as much terror and death and destruction they have caused to others at the same time as laying blame of the actions of one man and those under his authority solely on that of one nation as much as possible. It doesn't make anyone right, but it sure as hell drops their morale ground right about at the same level. There are VERY few examples indeed of a nation prosecuting one of its own on its own for crimes committed against another state. Oh, you would like that, would you not? To remove the background. To turn it into black and white. To meld Russia with the USSR no matter what. Well, guess what? Stalin wasn't a Russian. Stalin took control of the entire USSR. Stalin signed off on every order of rape, pillage, torture, and mass murder. Everyone else followed his orders. The hierarchy of the Ukrainian Socialist Republic followed his orders to the letter. Those people were Ukrainians. You would love to pretend it was only "Soviet Russians" that were to blame, and Stalin just happened to be ethnically Georgian and nothing else, but even the Russian Soviet endured its share of crimes committed against it by Stalin. Or did you happen to forget Russian suffered untold amounts under Stalin as well? No, I suppose that wouldn't fit in your rhetoric and demonising of Russia. Tito was the President of Yugoslavia from post-WW2 to 1980, at his death. He committed numerous massacres, and prejudiced heavily against Serbs. He was half-Croat, and half-Slovene. He was born in what was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Serbia is the recognised successor state to Yugoslavia. No one has attempted to take him to trial after his death. No one. And he's guilty of many a crime. Who prosecutes him? Serbia? Croatia? Slovenia? Austria? No one criticises Serbia for not doing so. No one claims he pushed forward some Serbian imperialist agenda. No, this is Russophobia and hatred at its best.

It makes no difference why Stalin murdered, whether for racial reasons or for ethnic reasons, or for any other reason one might imagine. The fact is, that he murdered – and murdered and murdered, until he became one of the greatest mass murders known to human kind, whose name and whose deeds will forever shame the pages of human history. While not a Russian himself, he did this in the name of the Soviet Russian imperialism, as well as in the name of his own sick paranoia. And he did not commit his multiple millions of murders, and ever greater multiple millions of enslavements, by himself. He had untold thousands of accomplices, and so did his successors who continued in his oppressive ways and whose only claim to fame is that they did not murder, enslave or terrorize quite so many as their mentor. It is to Russia’s profound shame that it has lifted not one finger even to investigate, much less prosecute and sentence, even one single individual who committed crimes against humanity in the name of the Soviet state. Never mind what Germany or any other nation did nor did not do – their actions or lack of it do not even begin to relieve Russia of its comprehensive moral bankruptcy in regard to its handling of its Soviet legacy.