Under Russia’s bloody aggression against Ukraine, the democracies of the Western
world have responded with stringent measures targeting Russia’s strategic sectors. However, in my opinion, the package of measures is missing Putin’s key weapon used both domestically and internationally. It is the so far prevalent pro-Russian or pro-Soviet interpretation of the causes and consequences of World War II. And together with it, the failure to provide proper, adequate, and international judgment of the criminal Soviet-Communist totalitarian ideology and the crimes committed by the regime from the legal and, most importantly, the political and moral perspective.
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