And if you're still "but, but, butt-ing" about this, I'd like to add one more thing.
It is not Putin driving the tanks. It isn't him shelling hospitals and nurseries. It isn't him giving commands to troops. It isn't him spewing brain-dead propaganda in RU media 24/7 for decades.
I really honestly don't want to hear any "but"s from "the people".
You reap what you sow.
So you're scared? You say "if I don't go kill innocent people, Putin will kill me". And what's the choice you make? You go kill innocent people.
Enough with the buts.
Nothing but humble pie for the people of Russia over the next 100 years. Make Germans feel like they got away with it easy.
If you make a distinction between soviet regime and current regime, I'm sorry, but I can't spend another second reading further into any other noise coming out of your keyboard.
Here's my take on this, which you are not going to like one bit. It goes like this...
The good people of Russia - and I'm not saying this with a tongue in cheek - the vast majority of the people of Russia truly are GOOD people, in the simplest, most sincere sense of the word... But they do need to go through some things.
You just don't get to support a murderous communist regime for 100 years and then say "but we had nothing to do with it". I'm sorry, but you had everything to do with it.