I didn't say they didn't defend their actions, I said they don't suppress the accounts and push an "official" sanitized history.
Ask the US government or 99% of US citizens about the fire bomb attack in Tokyo and the nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and you you will get "sanitized history" response.
They will simply not accept that those where "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity".
Russia is simply not the only one as you have claimed.