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wasn't a big topic at the coffee table but from what I understood - and from their undying hate for Russian people - i took that this happened to one of my grandmothers.
i don't blame Russians today for that - just like I don't blame myself or Germans born after 1945 for what the Nazis did.
But what is annoying is that many (not all) Russians totally deflect and deny when it comes to that topic - or try to shift the blame.
it happened, it was an evil time, admit it, say sorry - just like we do for what our ancestors did.
can't be that hard.
but you see the same in Poland (where it's forbidden to mention that there were also antisemites among the Poles that helped to bring down Jews), in Hungary (where Hungarians actively helped the Nazis killing Jews) and Czech Republic (where it took ages to finally admit that Czechs killed German civilians after the war had ended).
Soviet propaganda taught all these countries for 40+ years that the evil facsism alone was guilty for everything and they were the better society. And if you dared to raise your finger and point at your own people... off to Gulag you went.
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