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That's not exactly the same, though. Soviet Union, while occupying countries, sent people to those countries with the explicit goal of replacing the local population, deporting the original population in parallel. That's why the majority on Crimea is Russian today. I'm not aware something like that happened in Germany, but what parent comment says and assumes happened here as well did in fact happen elsewhere.

Reagan called the USSR an evil empire in 1983. I get the historical reference. I lived it.

800 years of Russian history has taught you nothing.