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It has been easy for Americans to grow angry, exasperated, or disgusted with the Russians, regardless of whether Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, or Putin Was in charge. Think of all the appaling outrages, from the Katyn forest massacre and the mass rapes by Red Army soldiers during World War II, to the repression of Eastern Europe in the cold war, to the more recent aggression against Georgia and Ukraine. Not to mention the Berlin and Cuban crises of a half century ago and the egregious interference in the US election last year. Even during the Grand alliances, the Russians aggravated American sensibilities with their secretiveness and suspicion.
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