Maybe it's because the Russians, unlike us, seem to get that history is history, the good and the bad, and don't try to cover it up, as we seem to be so anxious to do here in the West with all of the tearing down of statues.
“Maybe it’s because the Russians, unlike us, seem to get that history is history, the good and the bad, and don’t try to cover it up, “
I have read a few Russian history books over the years and the 200 year Mongol occupation is a dark and cancerous subject that is glossed over and only referenced at it’s end as a conquest by Alexander Nevsky in the rise of Novgorod.
The Russians aren’t very forth coming on how they were chummy with the Krauts until Adolf decided he didn’t need a partner anymore.