Putin is living in denial

Putin: Vietnam worse than Stalin purges Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: “Russia should never forget the abuses of the Communist era, Putin said. But he also said no one had the right to make Russia feel guilty about those abuses.
‘No one must be allowed to impose the feeling of guilt on us,’ he said. ‘Let them think about themselves.”

Why should Russia not feel guilty? It certainly should! The Stalin purges, communism and the cold war caused the deaths of hundreds of million of people around the world. Communism also was the cause of Korea, Vietnam and the killing fields of Cambodia. We did not go to Vietnam to contain democracy. If you recall, Russia threatened the West with nuclear annihilation for several decades. Russia’s advancement of communism almost brought the world to total destruction. It lead to the bankrupting of your economy and to a great depression for the people of Russia. You might take full responsibility for embracing this godless evil philosophy and move on. Otherwise, if you do not learn from history, you are probably doomed to repeat it.

No country in this world is totally without fault but certain countries have allowed evil to flourish much more than others. Germany and Japan took full responsibility for what happen in the second world war but now you cannot take full responsibility for what happen afterward? By the way, would it have really been more humain for the U.S. to not have dropped those nuclear weapons on Japan making it necessary for both countries to fight on Japanese soil with perhaps millions getting killed and ending in the complete destruction of Japan? Further, if the bombs were not dropped would not someone have risked using them in some later action. Like perhaps Russia?