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It's weird that a Russia Today talking head would find Stalinism a negative.

why?

Because Russia Today promotes official Russian policy, with Stalinism whitewashing being one its major component.

To be fair, pretty much every country aside from Germany is whitewashing their past with the help of the media. Some call it propaganda, some call it patriotism, some call it "promoting of state policy" but it's all the same thing.

To be fair, even in Germany there is a substantial amount of whitewashing the past. Be it the founding of the BND predecessor "Organization Gehlen" or the Nazi sympathizers that worked as judges and prosecutors in the federal Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization

That the denazification process in both the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic was incomplete after the war is a pretty uncontroversial thing in Germany, I would say. Aside from the far-right fringe, I don't think there is a lot of "whitewashing" around it, although I might be wrong. The CDU certainly has incentive to not stress that part of their history too much, though.

Russian official line is that partitioning of Poland with Hitler was justified. What is the official German position? (but but both sides, sure yeah)

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