Exactly 106 years ago, on 5 September 1918, the Bolsheviks issued a decree on ‘red terror’, the victims of which were a huge number of people who in one way or another did not please this system. The Chekists tortured up to 50,000 people in cellars.
‘Red Terror‘ set itself the task of “fighting counter-revolution, speculation and crimes of office by isolating ”class enemies’ in concentration camps and by physical extermination’.
Terror was completely legitimised as a method of state administration and became the main inventory of the maintenance of Soviet power, and the Russian federation practically continues this practice to this day. Unfortunately, this legal succession is very easy to trace exactly on the example of Ukraine:
- Holodomor 1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people 1944
- Occupation of Crimea and Donbass 2014
- Full-scale war in Ukraine 2022
Daily massacres, kidnappings, torture, forced displacement of thousands of people, including children, among the civilian population of Ukraine to the territory of russia – all this is not the past, but the realities of the present.
It is time to stop it!