And Russian Deputies Pay the Price of Government Fiction

Many of you already know this, but I'm still catching up for November: Ukraine has finally recognized Holodomor as genocide.

This is a great step forward in acknowledging the crimes of the Soviet Union. 

In response to Ukraine's action, Communists and Russian deputies voiced their concerns. They ought to be concerned. The only strong argument they have against calling it genocide is the case that its own citizens were annihilated just as brutally as Ukrainians. None of the politicians calling this a "mistake" will do such a thing. How could they point out the errors of the Communist state sufficiently to make any case when Putin himself said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst tragedy of the twentieth century? So they either avoid the question like mad or stand beside unreformed Communists.

That's the price of Soviet nostalgia, fellows. Pay the price or ditch the rhetoric.