"And expediency dictated the US import and protect people for whom justice would have been a work camp in Siberia."
And what about the millions who died in those Siberian work camps? Not a single person has ever been tried or punished for the gulags. Many of the people who were guards and workers in those camps are living in the US now...and no one really cares. Putin is the former head of the KGB (which did no less than the Gestapo for far longer) yet we gladly welcome him to come visit our country.