The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO
supports the proposals on launching of a nation-wide state
public programme “On perpetuation of memory of victims of
the totalitarian regime…” prepared by the Working Group on
Historical Memory of the Council for Civil Society Development
and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation.
YABLOKO expresses its satisfaction in view of the fact that
the proposals by the Working Group as of their meaning and
proposed measures, largely coincide with YABLOKO’s Political
Committee decision “Overcoming of Stalinism and bolshevism
as a key factor for Russia’s transformation in the 21st century”
of February 28, 2009.
We assess the statement on inadmissibility of Stalin’s methods
of governing for modern politicians, as well as the statement
on inadmissibility for state officials to negate of justify
mass-scale reprisals and other crimes made by the totalitarian
regime in the USSR, as very important. We also support the
initiative on the burial of the body [of the leader of the
October coup d’etat of 1917] Vladimir Lenin and also believe
that the monument to [the first KGB head] Felix Dzerzhinsky
should be removed (as it is still in the centre of Moscow
at Petrovka 38) as soon as possible.
Supporting the proposals targeted at perpetuation of the
memory of victims of reprisals, social support of former political
prisoners and opening of the archives to a maximum possible
extent we believe it necessary to considerably broaden the
proposals referring to the political and legal assessment
of the criminal totalitarian regime.
The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO considers it
necessary to implement the following:
- provide on the state level a clear and explicit legal,
political and moral assessment of the violent seizure of power
by the Bolsheviks in 1917-1918, and the nature of the political
regime created by them;
- clearly determine the sphere of legal succession of modern
Russia as a legal successor of the Russian state which existed
before the October coup of 1917;
- qualify the terror unleashed by the heads of the state in
the periods of Lenin – Stalin as crimes against humanity;
- regard justification or negations of mass-scale reprisals
organised by the Bolshevik and Stalin’s regime as a criminal
offense;
- create the conditions that would make impossible functioning
in modern Russia of organisations calling themselves the heirs
of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks - the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union and ChK-GPU-NKVD-KGB.
We are certain that some steps targeted at memorialisation
(of the victims) will not suffice for overcoming of the Bolsheviks
and Stalin’s legacy. Political will for conducting of a special
policy targeted at de-bolshevisation of Russia is required.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chair of the YABLOKO party
See also:
Overcoming
Stalin's Legacy
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