
From: Douglas Shepherd (MTW L’viv) — History Claps Back:
As Russia gathers to praise itself don’t forget that in 1939, they started WWII on the side of the Nazis.
You can change the name (Moscow centered Soviet to Moscow centered Russia) but they are still amoral, evil aggressors against their neighbors.
Soviet traditional morality and spirituality is seen here when they joined up with the Nazis in 1939 to attack Poland.
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.
Old fantasies die hard.