There is no room for Stalin’s mass murders in the kind of “patriotic” education favored by Russian President Vladimir Putin. And the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to name but one bloody event in China’s recent past, has been officially forgotten.
当然，粉饰或否认国家历史黑暗部分并不是日本的专利。俄罗斯总统弗拉迪米尔·普京青睐的“爱国主义”教育容不下斯大林屠杀。而中国官方也绝口不提前些年发生的天安门广场屠杀血腥事件。