Yeah, but that was long ago, doesn't count as I was told. Certainly not Putin's fault.
Noone is blaming Bush for killing the Indians either.
This was seventy years ago. Some of those people are still alive to this day.

A very important difference between the deportation of people in the Soviet Union and and the treatment of the native Americans in the United States is that firstly, the United States acknowledges that it has happened and has made all kinds of concessions towards them as a result of this. Meanwhile, the Russian government refuses to acknowledge that the Baltic states (for example) were annexed illegally and against their will.