It's Official: USSR Did Bad Things

From Yahoo News:
"Medvedev: Soviet-era terror cannot be justified"

It is about time a Russian President had the guts to stand-up and speak out against all the horrors and unjust things that happened in the Soviet Union. I am surprised that President Medvedev actually said the things he did especially since most just consider him Putin's puppet and Putin has said and done things to praise everything Soviet. It is not going to be popular for Medvedev (especially among other government officials since the majority of them held high positions in the USSR (ie Putin), but until you admit the wrongs of the past - which every country has - then you can't fully move forward and prosper. I am curious to see what happenings now since these are just words on a speech and I have seen other Presidents (ie Obama) be good at words, but not in actions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_soviet_terror