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Agreed.
Russia sacrificed a lot during the WW2. Soldiers and their families gave so much for the world to be free from fascism and nazism. Regardless of present day animosity between the West and Russia, I salute the Russian nation for their bravery and sacrifice during WW2.
However, Joseph Stalin was also behaving like Hitler before Germany invaded Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1941.
- USSR invaded Finland and Poland in 1939.
- USSR invaded and annexed Baltic states (Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania) in 1940.
USSR and Germany had Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to split Europe including Poland between them.
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Five states remember 'misery' pact victims
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact doomed half of Europe for decades, say the Baltics, Poland and Romania.
www.bbc.com
Both sides were Fascist to begin with.
The Big Five have conditioned people around the world to subconsciously hate Nazism which is fine but somewhat ironic given their own respective track record(s). China does have better moral compass because these people have experienced imperialism of the British Empire for burning opium and oppression of Imperial Japan. China also saved North Korea in the Korean War.
China is becoming powerful and seems to patronize Russia lately but China should reject Fascism. Developments in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine indicate that Russia have not changed.