I ' ve lost count of Russian governmentsponsored documentaries about evils of Stalin and NKVD . It ' s in the school curriculum . Russia has an official day of remembrance for victims of political repression 30 th of October . There are still active excavations of suspected execution sites , approved and endorsed by the Kremlin . You can fill a library with books on the matter . Frankly , the amount of ash Russians dumped on their heads because of Stalin co . can be rivaled only by German selfflagellation over Nazism and American white guilt . <| sep |> It ' s an imperfect term to be sure . Generally speaking the average American meets people of slave ancestry all the time and meets someone of recent African ancestry infrequently , so this isn ' t like some huge problem .