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From
the first steps of Russian invaders in the Caucasus the terror became the basic
method of conducting aggressive war of tsarist Russia in the vast terrain
between Black Sea and Caspian Sea. The punitive expeditions of occupation forces
in Caucasian villages pursued specific targets on the physical destruction of
the local population and suppression of the will of peoples to the resistance by
classical terrorist methods. Thousands of villages and large populated areas
were destroyed together with their entire population. Crops and the gardens (famous
Chechen gardens were known in whole Caucasus) were burnt up and were cut down.
Thousands of Caucasians, mainly children and women, were taken as hostages.
Hundreds of thousands were sent into Siberia, Turkey, and other internal regions
of Russia. Tens of peoples disappeared with the arrival of Russians in the
Caucasus.
The
greatest cruelty of tsarist Generals manifested in Chechnya, when precisely here,
Russian occupation forces encountered with the most decisive and rigid
resistance. Particularly, in Chechnya, tsarist troops suffered the most
considerable losses. The Generals Paskevich, Grabbe, Yermolov, Lazarev (West
Caucasus), Yevdokimov, Sleptsov, Baryatinsky and others used the wildest and
most brutal methods of murders and destruction. «To slaughter natives and
fighters, to destroy and to burn their dwellings and sowings were among the most
important tasks of our troops, tsarist Generals noted in their cannibalistic
orders. For the first time, Russians used the practice of taking hostages during
the first Caucasian war. For the first time, Russians began to deal in the
corpses of killed mujahideen precisely in the Caucasus. For the first time,
terror against the Caucasians acquired the systematic and thought-out character
as the basic method of the subjugation of rebellious peoples.
Tsarist
terror continued up to October revolution of the nineteen seventeen. It was
replaced by terror of red, and bolshevist Lenin's directives about the need of
applying massive terror against the enemies of the Bolshevization of Russia are
known to all. On the order of Lenin and Stalin in the Caucasus were used the
most monstrous methods of terror against the Caucasians and the Cossacks. In
particular, Bolsheviks destroyed Cossacks as ethnos. State Security Agents of
Felix Dzerzhinsky, whose successors today are bosses in Kremlin, shot more than
million Cossacks, basically women, children and old men in Novocherkassk only.
The terrorist raids of troops of the Red Army and National Commission for
Internal Affairs in Chechen villages in the 1920 and 1930 are described in the
newspaper reports of that time. On the massive deportation of Caucasian Moslems
and other peoples in 1940 is known to the entire world.
The
terror of Brezhnev times began after the short snow-break of Khrushev. The
all-pervading KGB and all-penetrating party organs destroyed unreliable persons
on the special orders, strictly tracking any manifestation of
«nationalism». Unreliable persons had to shelter in psychiatric
hospitals. Cultural genocide became official ideology at the places. So still
fresh in the memory to this author are academic years in the Soviet school, when
teachers strictly punished the students when they communicated between
themselves in their native Chechen language. This was considered as a crime. For
this, we could be expelled from the school. Any move of national
self-consciousness and goal-directed was suppressed.
Islam
was declared tradition of the past and fanatic religion. Women were forced to be
unveiled under the party slogan of local communists – «mountainous girl
remove kerchief”. The campaign for unclothing women was carried out as one of
the main roles in policy of domestication of Chechens. Komsomol weddings, long
kiss in front of parents, and compulsory 100 grams i.e. all that caused a
feeling of shame and dislike in Chechens was declared as the attributes of new
life. Chechen old men, observers of Shari’ah in the families, were declared
reactionaries and extremists. The unbroken by Stalin terror, Chechen old men
presented serious danger to the authorities in view of the fact that they had
strong ideological influence on the young people. In those times, Soviet terror
against the citizens, peoples and entire states bore the concealed nature.
Gorbachev’s
perestroika was marked by return to the practice of demonstrative terror.
Farghana slaughter, Tbilisi and Baku events, War in Karabakh and large-scale
campaign against the so-called «Chechen Mafia», which followed the shooting of
Chechens in entire Russia. With the disintegration of USSR and the accession to
power in Russia of the so-called democratic forces headed by Yeltsin, Soviet
terror yielded the place for democratic terror. Beginning from 1991, Russian
democratic terror against Chechen state and the people acquired the features of
total genocide and crime against the humanity.
Putin,
as the continuer of the affair of Soviet State Security Agents and their direct
successor, unveiled real terror, after rejecting all conventionalism. Putin’s
terror is one of the most degraded and most infamous varieties of Russian
terrorism (russism), which together with the classical forms and methods of
terror uses immoral- criminal self-consciousness of Russian society. The bright
manifestation of the immoral- criminal core of Putin terrorism is the slogans («to
destroy all separately»), according to which, Russia wages neocolonial war in
Caucasus.
The
peculiar feature of Russian terrorism, adopted in whatever historical intervals
of time, is its succession. Therefore, it is completely reasonable to speak
about the Russian terrorism as about the terrorism Kremlin, since precisely
Kremlin is that center of the Russian terrorism, which with passage of hundreds
of years is a classical example of the so-called international terrorism, which
has now been declared by present international community and enemy number one of
humanity.
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