You're right and I just wanted to add on top: How can they teach about that? People might start asking questions, it's bad enough to admit your ancestors did atrocities, but that's not the only issue. People had homes and sometimes land also, what happened to the homes of the victims? What happened to the homes where not a single family member was left?

Part of hiding the history is shame, but it's more sinister than that. There's some awful stories I've heard since they started vandalizing memories down here in Baltics and re-opened wounds of the people. It's really sad, because I was hoping we'd get past shit like my father's side of the family calling us "Russian halflings" in a derogatory fashion, when I was growing up ... (which progressives have always been more or less a-ok with for some reason???)