"For decades, the Kremlin claimed the moral high ground won by the death of 27 million Soviet citizens in the war, more than all the Allied casualties combined. The sacrifice of these ordinary people was real and unquestionable. Yet most, including the Red Army, starved or froze to death, the victims of Soviet incompetence rather than the Nazis, and a disproportionate number were Ukrainians and Belarusians, not Russians. Millions more were imprisoned in captive nations, or worse. That's a legacy of V-E Day, too."
