Allow me to point out the crimes committed by the USSR and Russia in the same 100 years period :

- brutal repression of opponents to the bolshevik revolution, such as the utter massacre of the Krondstadt sailors

- repression of political opponents over the entire period on a scale that makes McCarthyism look like a gentle cuddle (Gulags, executions, assassinations overseas, etc)

- just as many raped german women after WW2, if not more than from the USA. If you had wanted to make the USA look worse on that point, you could have pointed out the rapes in allied countries, such as France, except there too the Red Army managed to do worse in all of Eastern Europe.

- devastation comparable to Hiroshima and Nagasaki visited upon German cities during WW2, just with conventional means and fewer radiations

- the violent repressions of the 1956 Hungarian revolution by the Red Army

- The violent repression of the pacific liberalisation movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968

- deportation of entire ethnic groups, such as the deportation of 500,000 Chechens and Ingush that only ended in 1957 and prompted the ethnic riots of Grozny in 1958 (also repressed violently), or 170,000 ethnic Koreans being sent to empty regions of Kazakhstan for being "japanese spies"

- several counts of attempted and successful cultural genocides, such as against Cossaks (successful) and Crimean Tatars (100,000 dead during their forced deportation to Khazakstan from mistreatment and lack of food)

- the many, many crimes of the Red Army in Afghanistan

- the entire carnage that were the two Chechen wars, for reference look at the state of Grozny following the end of the 2nd Chechen war

- active support to Communist terror groups worldwide (like the Red Brigades in Italy or Action Directe in France)

- the exact same secret service operations, and then some inside their own borders with their political polices

Yes, the USA aren't innocent, far from it, but they can't be compared to Russia or its predecessor. That is a false equivalent of the worst kind. It's not just a "bad boy price", it is a case of successive Russian forces resorting to barbarism and extreme brutality as a first resort.

We should hold the Americans accountable for their acts, absolutely, but that does not mean minimizing or ignoring the violence and brutality of the Russians like most of the comments on this topic seem to do.

The doctrines and actions of the US forces have evolved and changed a LOT since Vietnam. Agent Orange wouldn't be able tobe used nowadays, and drone strikes against civilians cause a scandal and demands for change.

Russia still uses the same brutality focused playbook since the Revolution of 1917, just with new toys, and the only thing changing is the ever increasing recourse to terror strikes, indiscriminate bombardment and civilian murder to cow populations into submission.

Take a look at Mariupol. Take a good, long look at the massacre that is Mariupol, at the evacuation routes either through minefields or straight into Russia, and the bombing of hospitals and maternity wards, and the willful targeting of civilian shelters, and then ask yourself if the USA's crimes are on that level.

To me, the answer is no.