I have long ago decided not to comment on the policy of Putin’s state. Its criminal and misanthropic nature is obvious. The cities of Syria and Ukraine, destroyed to the ground by order of the Russian tyrant, speak for themselves.
The current decision to review all amnesties and definitions of illegal repressions of the communist regime, starting with the Red Terror of 1918-21, is happening in the same vein of self-justification of murderers and descendants of murderers.
But it is important because of its obvious self-exposure. What do the current aggressors in Syria and Ukraine care about the deeds of a century ago – the crimes of collectivization, the mass murder of figures of all religions and people from the cultural stratum of the old Russian society? What do they care about the fight against Soviet expansion in the Baltic countries, in Ukraine and Belarus, in Central Asia, in the Caucasus? – But it turned out that they can’t sit still. It turns out that even these degenerates who are revising the 1991 law on rehabilitation have a conscience. It is what is suffocating them. They want to remove the guilt from their fathers and grandfathers who tortured, killed, seized other people’s lands and robbed other people’s property by amending old norms.
What a terrible complex these people and their fathers lived with after 1991, that they decided to calm their conscience after 33 years, after a third of a century.
But these amendments are cheaper than the paper they are printed on. The fighters against the Bolsheviks, whoever they were, White Guards or clergy, UPA soldiers or the Baltic “forest brothers”, fighters for the faith and traditions of their fathers in Central Asia, the brave Andronicus in Armenia, participants in the Ganja uprising of April 1920 in Azerbaijan, peasants of the Tambov province and Siberia who defended their land and honour from the Lenin-Stalin collectivizers, professors who refused to serve the Chekists and teach students the nonsense of the “Short Course” – all of them were and will remain heroes in the memory of their peoples and humanity. But their persecutors, robbers and murderers will remain bandits and murderers, no matter what amendments their grandchildren accept.
Moreover, with these amendments, to the same extent as with their own crimes, in all respects similar to the crimes of their grandfathers and fathers, they clearly testify to themselves. They are the body of the flesh and bone of the bone of those murderers and will share their fate. They testify to the fact that Putin’s lawless tyranny is not something new, but something that has existed in Russia since November 1917 as a power. And without the complete, down to the roots eradication of century-old Bolshevism, Russia and other parts of the country captured by the Chekists have no other future than permanent war with their peoples and with the whole world.
Andrey Zubov
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