In regards to the hatred/animosity/bigotry that we see today against Russian people, I've been saying this for a while: this is nothing in comparison to what the future holds, at least that's the feeling that I get.
And the reason why I think that is rather simple: the children will grow up. The children that had their parents raped, mutilated or killed, the children whose houses and cities were bombed and pillaged.
And its not going to be like how it was in the past when post-war children grew with nothing much but stories from their family members, eventually some newspaper articles or some movies sprinkled here and there. No, these children will have readily available hundreds of thousands of videos, pictures and media on top of the all the stories they'll hear from people around them, not to mention the mass-media that will most likely talk about this for decades to come on a daily or mutiple-times-a-week basis.
Like I can't even begin to fathom the level of hatred these children will feel and I do really hope Ukraine finds a way to diminish that, because that level of hatred can't be healthy for a society.
Germans efter ww2 were easy as they still knew what decency was as they had the weimar republic right before things went south.
See, I don't necessarily agree with this point. The main reason why the post-nazi German society changed was because it was forced to do so, they were quite literally under occupation.
I don't think Russia will be occupied and as such I don't have much hopes for the rehabilitation of the Russian society. On the contrary, I think it spiraling even deeper into fascism/imperialism/revanchism is a valid concern.