Posted on 10/29/2018 2:03:20 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
VLADIMIR, Russia -- Anna Galinkina was appalled recently to see portraits of Stalin-era secret-police officers festooning celebratory billboards at local bus stops.
Her father, Zinovy Galinkin, was sent to the gulag shortly after World War II on flimsy accusations of "anti-Soviet propaganda," and she resents the rehabilitation of those who persecuted her family under the government of President Vladimir Putin.
"Today it is obvious that they've removed their masks...The ruling corporate elite of heirs of the Soviet chekists" -- a reference to the former secret police -- "are openly taking revenge on those who refuse to let society forget about the crimes of their predecessors."
Putin and many of his closest advisers are veterans of the Soviet KGB. Over the nearly two decades that Putin has been in power, Russia has seen the steady buffing of the image of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and efforts to downplay the significance of his crimes against his own people.
The Vladimir billboard campaign, created by the local museum of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor organization to the KGB, features portraits and short, sanitized biographies of officers who served in the Soviet security services.
The campaign uses the slogan, "They served in the ChK," referring to the Russian abbreviation for the "extraordinary commission" that was set up in 1917 to combat "counterrevolution." That abbreviation -- pronounced "cheka" -- produced the word "chekist" to refer to anyone who served in security forces, including the notorious NKVD under Stalin and the KGB during the later Soviet period.
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This is kinda like hanging posters with George Wallace on them in Harlem or South Central LA, but much worse. This could be on the order of hanging Hitler posters in Pikesville, MD.
Looks like a job for Spray Paint Man!!!
Everyone should view the movie...”The Chekist”.
The Dirty War page 99
In February 1919, after the general advance of the Bolsheviks into Ukraine and southern Russia, the first detachment of the Red Army penetrated the Cossack territories along the Don. At the outset the Bolsheviks took measures to destroy everything that made the Cossacks a separate group: their land was confiscated and redistributed among Russian colonizers or local peasants who did not have Cossack status; they were ordered, on pain of death, to surrender all their arms (historically, as the traditional frontier soldiers of the Russian empire, all Cossacks had a right to bear arms); and all Cossack administrative assemblies were immediately dissolved.
All these measures were part of the preestablished de-Cossackization plan approved in a secret resolution of the Bolshevik Party's Central Committee on 24 January 1919: "In view of the experiences of the civil war against the Cossacks, we must recognize as the only politically correct measure massive terror and a merciless fight against the rich Cossacks, who must be exterminated and physically disposed of, down to the last man." 34
In practice, as acknowledged by Reingold, the president of the Revolutionary Committee of the Don, who was entrusted with imposing Bolshevik rule in the Cossack territories, "what was carried out instead against the Cossacks was an indiscriminate policy of massive extermination." 35 From mid- February to mid-March 1919, Bolshevik detachments executed more than 8,000 Cossacks. 36 In each stanitsa (Cossack village) revolutionary courts passed summary judgments in a matter of minutes, and whole lists of suspects were condemned to death, generally for "counterrevolutionary behavior." In the face of this relentless destruction, the Cossacks had no choice but to revolt.
This is not surprising. Tsar Vladimir is nostalgic for the days when he was in the KGB and would love to restore the Russian Empire.
Absolutely everyone needs to see that film!
You can watch it on YouTube with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RSDqBn0bA
Disgusting. Not necessarily surprising, but disgusting.
Thanks CondoleezzaProtege. Some of those who served the Cheka were also served *by* the Cheka, and good riddance.
There is also a group calling the prisoners who worked the mines in the gulags heroes. Why? Because they mined the raw materials needed to build weapons to beat the Nazis. Fair bet the prisoners did not feel like heroes.
The professional holiday of the FSB dates to the founding of the NKVD in 1922.
It survived the fall of the Soviet Union.
This guy served with Stalin too, until he became an unperson that is. Kinda like the unhistory we are seeing here.
Chekist commanders were usually Russians of a special type, a group Solzhenitsyn later claimed were not really even Russian.
He even contested the notion there had been any “Russian” Revolution at all:
He said the revolution had been imposed on them from outsiders, who went on to kill 66 million Russians.
It was a Russian Revolution. Lenin controlled Central Russia and identified the Whites with foreign powers and the hated landowners, aristocrats and tsars. It’s understandable that some might want to downplay that, but that doesn’t change the history.
Solzhenitsyn, sad to say, had anti-Semitic tendencies.
Looks like a good spot to take a piss to me.
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Yes. Invest time to watch the video of the Cheka. Don’t look away from it.
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