Putin is such a dedicated believer in democracy and openness....NOT!
Scheming bastard.
Here he is plotting strategy with one of the Chi-Comm NAZI's who wants to annhilate the U.S. population with bioweapons:
Russian cooperation with China/Southeast Asia is much more about not having China take Sibera, which they would do long before attacking the US.
I do not know what you mean by communist apologists, I've yet to see any folks on FR defend communism.
Further, if, for instance, Germany decided to reveal details of American concentration camps this year, and previously classified government materials that refleceted poorly on the then government I do not suspect we would be chipper about it, and would rather wonder why so many years latter they're harping on a dead point. Similarly imagine if some african nation dug up some crazy confederate plan to kill slaves to make a statement, the confederacy doesn't even exist anymore, don't you think we'd take rather unkindly to someone attacking the present government on the basis the remenants of the confederacy are still within our borders?