One more opinion on the need to review the recent history of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and to investigate other crimes committed by Russia against humanity

 One more opinion on the need to review the recent history of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and to investigate other crimes committed by Russia against humanity

Nika Chitadze

Director of the Center for International Studies 

President of the George C. Marshall Alumni Union, Georgia - International and Security Research Center 

Professor of the International Black Sea University

As it is known, the world democratic society has imposed various sanctions against Russia - primarily of economic nature, which is certainly a welcome fact. However, it is also necessary for the international community to reconsider the ongoing processes in the recent and recent history of the aggressive policies of the Russian Federation, the USSR, and the Russian Empire.

As I mentioned in my previous post, it is probably necessary to acknowledge that the Cold War did not end in the early 1990s, it only transformed. In addition, it is probably important to emphasize that the international community should put on the agenda (within various international organizations and based on resolutions passed by the legislatures of different countries) the various crimes committed by Russia against humanity. In particular:

- Given the fact that with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Communist Soviet Union redistributed their spheres of influence in Europe and launched almost jointly aggressive military operations against their neighbors (e.g. 19 War against Finland (1939-1940) and part of the territory of Romania, as well as the occupation of the three Baltic republics, etc.) to be recognized for its outstanding contribution to the outbreak of World War II in the Soviet Empire, whose capital on May 9 as a "liberating country" Anniversaries on the victories over Nazism and Fascism were held annually;

In 1948 and then in East Germany (Berlin blockade) in 1953, as well as events in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Poland in the early 1980s, it was recognized that the Central and Eastern European peoples did not belong to the USSR after World War II. No liberation, while the occupation of Nazi Germany was replaced by the occupation of the Soviet communist regime;

Given the fact that there were 53 concentration camps in the Soviet Empire in the 1930s and 1940s and that more than 15 million people lost their lives during the Bolshevik and Soviet repressions, it must be acknowledged that the Soviet regime (which does not judge the winner) was not criminal. Unlike Nazi Germany) it was no less (if not more) evil than the Nazi regime in Germany or the fascist regime in Italy;

If the international community has more or less investigated the genocide committed by Nazi Germany against the Jewish people, the genocide committed by the Russian Empire against the Circassian and Abkhaz peoples during the 19th century should also be investigated;

To investigate the mass killings and genocide committed by the Soviet Empire against the Ukrainian nation within the framework of the "Holodomor" in the 1930s;

Investigate the mass deportations of Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, various Caucasian peoples by the Soviet Empire in the 1940s, and their deportation from their native lands;

To investigate the ethnic cleansing of Georgians by the Russian Federation in 1992-1993 and then in 2008 in Abkhazia and the former South Ossetian Autonomous District;

To investigate the genocide of the Chechen people by the Putin regime based on the deaths of more than 200,000 civilians during the two Russian-led wars in Chechnya (1994-1996 and 1999-2004).

Crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Empire, the USSR, and the Russian Federation should be recognized as "state terrorism" under Resolution 39/158 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1984.

Of course, the crimes committed by the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian people at this stage will be on the agenda.

Just as Germany was held financially liable to the Jewish nation for its crimes during Nazi Germany, so was the Russian Federation - the successor to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union - to bear monetary, legal, political, and moral compensation to various peoples against whom the Kremlin committed genocide, mass deportation, and The deportation took place.