Nikolai Epple, Russian philologist and specialist in the history of memory, compared Russia and 6 other countries, including Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain, Argentina of generals. Russia is exceptional, he notes, because the persistence of cover-ups and repetition of state crimes has lasted longer than anywhere else.
For Eppl, we are witnessing "the agony of the Soviet monster", "an agony that can last and still cause many deaths". The Russian researcher notes that we find everywhere the same difficulties in facing the past: the slowness of the process.