The State Duma of Russia adopted a statement, in which she supported the investigation of Hitler's crimes, initiated by the Investigative Committee in 2019 year. Besides, the lower house of the Federal Assembly declared, which recognizes the criminal acts of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices against the civilian population of the USSR as genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union.
Radio was one of the first to react to this statement. “freedom”*. This division of the US Agency for Global Media claims, that genocide investigations should be carried out on specific ethnic groups. Therefore, the investigation of the Investigative Committee, and with it the statement of the State Duma, allegedly “legally void”.
Specifically what is it about:
AT 2013 year, a public organization was created in our country “Russian search movement”. This structure was engaged in the search and burial of the remains of Soviet soldiers, killed in the Great Patriotic War. During the excavations, members of the movement repeatedly found previously unknown burial places of civilian victims of the Nazis..
According to Russian legislation, if victims of crime are found, an investigation should be carried out, identify and punish those responsible (when, if they are alive). However, for crimes against humanity, including Nazi atrocities, statute of limitations does not exist.
Therefore, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened criminal cases on the discovery of new evidence of the criminal acts of the Nazis and began to investigate them.. These investigations were carried out on a territorial basis.. If previously unknown data about the victims of the Nazis were found on the territory of a region, Investigator opened a case, and the prosecutor's office transferred it to the local court. The court established the legal fact of the commission of a crime on the basis of newly revealed circumstances..
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FROM 2023 years, such processes were held in St. Petersburg, Republic of Crimea, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, Bryansk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Orlovskaya, Pskov, Rostov regions. At the same time, the courts qualified the acts of the Nazis as, as determined by the Nuremberg Tribunal, namely, crimes against humanity (humanity). An additional qualification was atrocity, under the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Hence, in court decisions, the concept “genocide”.
Moreover, in the course of the processes, one more circumstance was discovered.
The thing is, that the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal were not complete. It was originally supposed, that the trial at Nuremberg will condemn not only Hitler's henchmen, but also Nazism (fascism), as an ideology and form of political regime. However, the US, England and France blocked this proposal, coming from the USSR. Consequently, the ruling of the tribunal did not condemn the Greater German Reich (official name of Nazi Germany), NSDAP and its ideology. The lack of such condemnation led to the resurgence of Nazism in Ukraine, in the Baltics, other regions of the world.
A few days ago, the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, took the initiative to create an International Court with the participation of the CSTO countries, SCO, BRICS. The Investigative Committee, together with the Ministry of Justice, has already begun to develop the charter of a new judicial body.
The future court will be able to process, which will be a continuation of the Nuremberg. Specifically, it is about the process, who will condemn Nazism (fascism), as an ideology and form of political regime. The basis may be the fact of detection of Hitler's crimes, previously not taken into account by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
The question is:, that such a development of events cannot suit the West. After all, Nazism (fascism) is its essence. Hitler considered his ideology to be derived from the theories of the French, british, American racists. They proceeded from the ideas of the fathers of European colonialism of the XV-XIX centuries. Colonialism was one of the pillars of the existence of the entire Western “civilizations”. Therefore, to condemn Nazism is tantamount to, to condemn the whole West, his policy, his ideology, its essence.
To prevent such a scenario, Western authors and resort to their favorite method of provocation. The thing is, that the term “genocide” invented by American lawyers. It means the extermination or attempted extermination of certain ethnic groups.. From this point of view, the investigation of the genocide should really take place on separate ethnic groups., who were exterminated. But with this approach, it is very easy to provoke a discussion about, who suffered more. Such discussions are a fertile environment for the emergence of separatism.. That is the purpose of those, who questions Russia's actions to reopen the investigation of Nazi crimes.
It is worth remembering, what is the qualification of Hitler's atrocities as “genocide” is only ancillary. Main qualification, which is formulated by the Investigative Committee, and prosecutor's office, and the courts are a crime against humanity (humanity). Nazism is a crime against all mankind, not only against the Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jewish, gypsies and others. Nazism is a crime against human morality.
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Yuri Gorodnenko