Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by Moscow’s Stalinist defense of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its hysterical attacks on Poland for not inviting Vladimir Putin to the commemoration of the beginning of World War II, but they have often failed to recognize what Moscow’s statements mean, Grigory Amnuel says.
Mr. Amnuel, a filmmaker, producer and politician, argues that Moscow’s statements represent the final rejection by the Putin regime of the path that democratic Russia pursued after the collapse of communism and before the rise of the power vertical dictatorship and thus put Vladimir Putin’s regime beyond the pale of civilized humanity.