Staunton, September 24 The great Russian memoirist Nadezhda Mandelshtam once observed that “happy is that country in which the despicable will at least be despised.” On that measure, Putin’s Russia is an increasingly unhappy place where ever more despicable things past and present are being justified or even presented as positive goods. In a commentary […]
Stalin’s Deportation of Crimean Tatars ‘Justified’ and ‘Humane,’ Russian Commentator Says
September 24, 2015