There’s a sanitizing of Soviet History (led by Snyder). Everything is blamed on Stalin. None of the leaders of the Checka, NKVD, KGB are ever mentioned. Many of them were Jewish, as noted by Israeli columnist Sever Plocker (here). No one has a monopoly on cruelty, nor on victimhood.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/27/hitler-vs-stalin-who-was-worse/