- Theft of millennia: how Moscovia rebranded itself as ‘Russia’
- War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930
- Holodomor – genocide by hunger in Ukraine, peak around 1931-32
- Gulag System – Immortal Barracks – from 1930s
- Kuropaty / Minsk – NKWD Mass Executions 1937-1941
- Katyn – Massmurdering Polish Elites – 1940
- Splitting Germany in Two – 1949 – 1989
- Covering up the Chernobyl Disaster 1986
This a log of my readings and learnings about crimes committed by the state or its authorities in Russia. Mostly this concerns the Soviet state; sometimes this may include tsarist Russia.
I chose the term “Moscovia” to bring clarity to the fundamental imperial structure of the tsarist Russia, the recent imperial Soviet Union and the contemporary Russia which acts from a mad phantom empire idea.
The Soviet Union grew out of tsarist Russia and a violent revolution, in which millions of people lost their homes, properties and lives. Right after the violent uprising of 1917 and in the aftermath of the first world war, a bloody civil war between red communist and white tsarist armies ensued. Various national armies also arose and fought for the independence of regions, later incorporated into the Soviet Union. In the end the power resided in Moscow and any power given to regions other than Moscow was only cosmetic and temporary, not in a true sense between equal partners.
The ideal of a communist revolution, where people participated from their own free will, was a myth. Those who said NO to the revolution and the numerous changes it proposed to society, often lost their freedom and lives in the aftermath. A NO was not respected by the fanatic revolurtionaries, often seen as interference from imagined enemy forces and punishable by death. In the Soviet Union the violence against the people was hidden. Propaganda covered the most hideous crimes or presented them as heroic deeds. was. Short moments of truth appeared and disappeared. I speak about the “warming period” of a year under Chrusthov and the “transparency” period under Gorbachov – who today is seen as a traitor in Russia – when in fact the truth is all the opposite.