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Quasimodo
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Dec 22 2015, 08:16 AM
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A topic which, of course, bears no relation at all to the Duke case; except that, well, maybe in some respects, it does... :
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http://alexanderboot.com/content/happy-genocide-day-vlad
Happy genocide day, Vlad Posted on: 22 December 2015
On 20 December, five days before the birthday of Christ, Russia celebrated another birthday, that of her security services.
Chekist Day (from ‘CheKa’, Chrezvychainaia Komissiya, the founding name of the organisation later known as the KGB) is commemorated in the Russian calendar as a national holiday, a cause for celebration.
It couldn’t be otherwise, for 87 per cent of Russia’s top government officials are proud veterans of the KGB/FSB/SVR. I’m sure they were all moved to tears when Col. Putin congratulated them publicly on the glorious occasion. I’m sure they are proud of their alma mater’s achievements.
There are indeed achievements to be proud of. This most awful terrorist setup in history, established by Lenin’s decree 98 years ago, is directly responsible for the death of 60 million Soviet citizens, those shot, tortured, starved to death, turned into ‘camp dust’, in Stalin’s phrase.
This is what Prof. Rummel, the author of Lethal Politics, calls ‘democide’, indiscriminate slaughter by category – as opposed to ‘genocide’, the slaughter of specific ethnic or religious groups.
Actually the KGB (as it’s still usually called generically) has form in both, as many citizens in the former Soviet Union could testify. Ukrainians, Chechens, Balkars, Daghestani, Letts, Lithuanians, Estonians, Crimean Tartars were all massacred not for what they did but for what they were.
[We are fortunate to live in a state where one is considered innocent until proven guilty; and that no one can be accused and considered guilty merely by reason of belonging to a certain ethnicity.]
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When did we become such a sorry lot? When did we smash to smithereens our framework of moral reference?
[Again, fortunately, there is such moral underpinning associated with a Methodist-connected university, which hosts both a Law School and a Divinity School, that a total abandonment of moral precepts could never be imagined.]
If that structure were still intact, this fact alone, that the Russian government officially celebrates Chekist Day, would tell us all we needed to know about Putin’s Russia – even if we knew nothing else.
[What tells us all we need to know about Duke and Durham? Their failure, not only to apologize, but to even admit that an apology might be necessary? ("For what?")]
As it is, assorted ‘useful idiots’, ably represented by Peter Hitchens, Christopher Booker and, when he’s in that sort of mood, Nigel Farage, praise Putin’s strong leadership qualities.
[Were there any "useful idiots" covering the lax case? Or even writing books about it years after the event?]
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