crimes committed by totalitarian regimes - Ministrstvo za pravosodje
crimes committed by totalitarian regimes - Ministrstvo za pravosodje crimes committed by totalitarian regimes - Ministrstvo za pravosodje
Crimes committed by totalitarian regimes Another easily provided counter-reaction is the preventive demand of transparency: what killer do you have in mind? Rich or poor, big or little? We pragmatic politicians will consider the crimes only after clarification. See, we do not want more problems. Then dual standards kill all the standards. We are against all forms of discrimination; therefore discrimination of innocent victims should be an especially outrageous stance. Anyway, it happens. Some victims of war crimes are calling for justice loudly while some others are lying buried in silence. Discrimination of victims is completed by that of killers. Perpetrators of crimes against humanity are treated discriminatingly alongside their nationality and ideology. Some think that a shot across the skull by a Nagan-gun in the hand of an NKVD–KGB executioner was less painful for the victim than that exercised by a Walter-gun in the hand of an SS man. The same wrong tradition of discriminatory valuation and judiciary is exercised concerning the techniques used by the terminators. Gas chambers to kill thousands and tens of thousands of human beings were a diabolic invention of the German Nazis, from engineers to political leadership. Another industry of extermination was built and used by Soviet Bolsheviks, also from well-managing executioners of the Gulags to political leadership. The main machinery there, besides shooting, was a combination of Arctic cold and organized starvation exercised by bosses of that entirely exhausting slavery and most often senseless labour. Millions were killed in enormously vast chambers of helplessness, from horizon to horizon, where deadly torture lasted a bit longer than gas. From over 130,000 civilians brutally taken from their occupied country Lithuania to distant and hostile areas of the occupying USSR, only some 30 percent survived to return home. Who killed the remaining? Who killed millions of Ukrainians during the artificial famine called Holodomor, which was intended to break down the vitality of national peasantry and clear the area for future resettlements? Similarly, the area around today’s Kaliningrad was cleansed in a military and administrative action before and after the Potsdam Conference. Chechnya was cleansed even a bit earlier, in 1944, during Stalin’s action, which was recently condemned by the European Parliament as genocide. The aim of this first hearing, starting today as the initial step in a process, should be to overcome hypocrisy and help Europe to have a more true and moral judgement of the greatest criminal tragedies of the 20 th century. For what sake, gentlemen? To this I have just responded. Europe must live in respect to itself. 86
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