In an age of strong opinions, ambiguity, and internalized whataboutism, it's good, though disturbing, to periodically get reminded of what evil looks like and who the bad guys actually are.
Whataboutism aside, I really don't get what you're trying to imply with that "actually".
Like, is there some country whose blemished record we pretend is terrible, but is "actually" okay when compared to Russia?
Julian Assange was recently freed after spending 12 years either cooped in an embassy or in literal prisons because of the US's relentless campaign to punish him for exposing the US's war crimes. (And yes, there are many things to dislike about Assange and his support for Russia is a pretty big one, but the US would have hunted him regardless of these things.)
Is the message that the US aren't actually the bad guys? That they're only the bad guys until you compare them to more violent and more openly criminal regimes? In that logic, isn't Russia not-actually-the-bad-guys because it has committed fewer war crimes than ISIS or the Nazis or the Myanmar junta? (Or maybe not. I don't know the numbers for any of those.)
The lesson can't be that we're periodically reminded of evil when it's unambiguous and performed by polities opposed to US hegemony. All states do evil given the opportunity, and the only way to close off that opportunity and call them out whenever it happens, whether they are Russian, American, Israeli, Arab, French, Brazilian, Papuan or whatever else.
Dude, you're the only person here who mentioned America. Feels like you're projecting what you think other people think and reply to that, not to what they actually wrote.
The evil of Nazi Germany is notable because of the scale of their atrocities. This is the same with Russia where the evil is so systematic and widespread that it boggles the mind.
Trying to compare the evil of Russia today to something like Guantanamo can only be seen as furthering Russia's propaganda.
1) even the article didn't mention it, so it feels like a forced comment to say "well, there are only shades of grey".
2) folks who aren't US citizens don't vibe with your perspective the same way. As a Pole I see Russians as unequivcally "the bad guys" because they have done the exact same kind of thing to our country to Polish people in the past. The tales of Polish prisoners in Russian work camps are numerous and pretty much the same as this article describes.
You're trying very hard to insert the US into the discussion here while the focus should be on what Russia is doing to Ukraine, where there's very clearly a good vs evil thing going on.
Complaining about the evil that US has committed when discussing Russia's actions is only helping Russia's propaganda. Cut it out.
The scale of Putin's Russia crimes are stratospheric. It isn't only tortures, there's raping, kids kidnapping, castration, targeting civilians with bombs, etc. And that isn't all, in particular if you add what Putin's regime is doing against their own people. Also keep an eye on what's still happening in Syria, and what Wagner is doing in the Sahel region.