Poland insists on the return of the paintings from the Pushkin Museum of Fine

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Сообщение от nikolai nesterenko

question is not exclusive or nonexclusive. none of you listed are not whitewashes persecution, torture and murder of tens of millions of people these glorious "bodies"

I'm not trying to whitewash or dirty, as expressing an objective point of view.
By the atrocities of the NKVD listed you can treat only sharply accusingly. So all and relate. But do not exaggerate the number of victims.
Suppression of desertion, the struggle against espionage and sabotage, banditry and betrayal, conducting reconnaissance and sabotage operations on enemy territory could often do without the use of punitive measures. These punitive measures against another.
So it appears that

Сообщение от Ukhtomsky

You can have different attitudes to the functions and activities of the NKVD as a punitive body

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