The number of people with first-hand recollections of the Stalin era is steadily diminishing.
Of those that do, some have self-serving accounts to diminish their own guilt.
discussion of the past.
Pray for Russians! Still mired in ubiquitous lies!

Pray for Estonians as well! We have plenty of former Party members who distort the past for their own interests. The EU Parliamentarian Marju Lauristin, for example, who says that her Stalinist parents were, actually, innocent idealists.
What's the matter with the contemporary Estonians who voted her into office? A pox on that lot!