Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 29.10.2020

Photo: Honouring the memory of the victims of political reprisals, the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals, Lubyanka Square, Moscow.

“The truth about our country, the real truth, will be told only to those and by those who love it with all their heart… How can one love one’s country and turn away from millions of victims in the 20th century? Who turns away certainly does not love it.” (More)

“In total, in the period from 1917 to 1953 due to the civil war, collectivisation of farmers and continuous mass terror, Russia lost, according to historians, at least 26 million people (and this is in addition to the losses in the Second World War). It is even difficult to imagine anything comparable in scale to this national tragedy… Nevertheless, the modern Russian government refuses to give any historical assessments of what has happened to the country over the past hundred years. However, without understanding the events of the past and their proper assessment as a factor determining today’s life, it is impossible to correct anything in it today. (More)

To be able to correct it, one needs to understand: the Bolshevik system, which led the people to the greatest tragedy in their history, has not vanished. This system in an updated, hybrid, while somewhat softened form represents a reality today. And we live in it… Today, the successors of the Bolsheviks are in power in Russia, and their policies are nothing more than modern Bolshevism,” Grigory Yavlinsky wrote in 2017 in his article The Great Terror and Modern Bolshevism.

Source