Yes. However, because Russia played on both sides -- first Germany's, then the Allied side -- no one sees them as "victims".
And because Russia sees itself as "the victor of WWII", they don't even really see themselves as "victims" or promote that idea.
The thinking today is quite different than the thinking of times past. In earlier times, those who were killed while battling for their country used to be seen as "dead heroes for the cause". Today, identical events would produce "victims".
Also millions of dead Japanese, Germans, Chinese, etc.
I have no personal stake in Balkan rivalries; it was just a very bizarre claim that the author made!
The Nazis not only targeted Serbs, but also Poles and Russians. Concentration camps in Poland were full of both of them, in addition to Jews.
Now the same Slavophobic ideology not only reigns among Balkan muslims, but in a different form in our own State Department, and among many professional Balkan and East European “experts”.
And, unfortunately we Christians have counterparts to the Jewish muslim described in the article—”mainline” dhimmis and even worse—islamoChristians like the late George Habash. Then there are those islamoChristian “bishops” of the Lutheran, Anglican etc. churches in the Holy Land.
True, true, true.