No guilty people in the world?

Zabuzhko focuses on Russian literature after the Bucha massacre. There are shelfloads of books offering root-and-branch revisions of European history. Without them, it will be impossible to understand how the West could have become so culturally disorientated that, for more than twenty years, it stubbornly ignored a textbook example of the growth and ripening of a new totalitarianism in Russia and repeated the very behavioral patterns of the 1930s that encouraged Adolf Hitler. One could name dozens of reasons for the West's blindness to Russian totalitarianism. The most obvious are the unlearnt lessons of the USSR, and most of all the deceptive discourse around the Second World War, in which all crimes against humanity were ascribed, by silent consensus, to the vanquished totalitarianism.