Oh look, a negative and insulting article on Russia in America's newspaper of record on the eve of the nation honouring its troops. What a surprise.
Two questions to author: what was his grandfather charged for, and did Soviet slavery machine forced his father to become drunkie?
Such assholes are trying to diminish acts of bravery of USSR soldiers just because they hate Putin and it's in fashion to hate USSR.
I hate Putin too, I think USSR government was gang of terrorists, but soldiers of USSR won that war, and price can't be diminished.
History will forget name of this asshole but will never forget who won the war.
Fantastic article, and a highly recommended read.
TL,DR: a NYTimes op-ed article by a famous Russian writer, arguing how communist Russia's "victories" during WWII and after resulted in the slavery and suffering of its own people.