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Can you provide an example of Russia denying Soviet Union's obligations when it was not convenient?

Accepting blame for Soviet occupation of Baltic states or Poland. Accepting repercussions for Holodomor.

Soviet Union did not accept the blame for occupation of Baltic states so I don't see how it should be Russia's obligation.

Repercussions of Holodomor were deaths of millions of Soviet citizens in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus. What do you want Russia to accept here ?

Russia denies it's Soviet Union obligations whenever talks turn to paying reparations for Baltic States occupation or military actions in Czechoslovakia or Hungary.

Yet they love Soviet Union obligations when they don't return Lithuania's interwar embassy in Rome. Or when May 8/9 comes around :)

> Soviet Union did not accept the blame for occupation of Baltic states so I don't see how it should be Russia's obligation.

USSR didn't accept 'Tsar's bonds' yet Russia payed them out.

So, yeah, double standards.

> What do you want Russia to accept here

Same as for praising 'Russian' victory over Germany, for example. Accept their involvement.

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