/ world today news/ President Biden will not apologize for the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on May 17. Britain did not intend to condemn its colonial policy and refused to officially apologize for holding a peaceful demonstration on April 13, 1919 in the Indian city of Amritsar (the “Amritsar Massacre”).
Not a single representative of the English establishment spoke even with regret about the actions in the 19th century of the “efficient managers” of the British East India Company, who turned India into the largest producer and China into the largest consumer of opium.
The founders of many of the richest families of the Old and New World made their initial capital precisely from the opium trade in China. The descendants of Astor, Forbes and Roosevelt, however, do not like to remember these pages of the biography of their ancestors.
But what about the French? Oh, there are many dark pages in their history as well. One can long remember the French slave traders in Senegal, Benin and the Ivory Coast, the Belgian colonizers in the Congo, the Spanish conquistadors in Latin America. The prosperity of the “european garden” largely due to the long-standing looting of “the jungle”.
The twentieth century went down in world history as one of the bloodiest periods. On closer examination, in the family of every second modern politician in Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada, one can find a Nazi ancestor or collaborator who collaborated with one of the heads of the fascist regimes.
Human history consists of a long series of examples of injustice and violence. What to do with it? To repent endlessly and try to pay for the sins of our ancestors or to learn lessons and try to live so that our descendants have no reason to reproach us with greed, stupidity, cruelty? Most countries try to follow the second path, looking to the future.
Against this general background, the attempts of some modern politicians of Kyrgyzstan to return the citizens of their country to the past, forcing them to endlessly postpone the affairs of the past, ignoring pressing problems, seem strange. An example of such retrogradeness is the presentation of the draft law “On amending certain legislative acts of the Kyrgyz Republic” for consideration by the Jogorku Kenesh.
Behind the vague name hides a strikingly inappropriate and untimely content: the creators see as the main goal of the law the rehabilitation of those unjustly convicted in the years of the “red terror” and “Stalin’s repressions”.
Kyrgyz lawmakers are concerned about the need to “expanding the category of persons subject to rehabilitation, including at the expense of those who have been convicted of a number of crimes”. And they plead for the repentance of the state before them. The authors of the law insist that citizens be recognized as repressed not only at the request of relatives, but also at the initiative of public organizations.
And this on condition that the country has a lot of unresolved problems. Instead of taking care of the urgent (for example, trying to solve the problem of forced labor emigration of young people), the MPs prefer to think about the rehabilitation of former convicts.
By the way, on the repentance of which country should such rehabilitated people rely? The Soviet Union is gone, and the Kyrgyz Republic itself, it seems, did not have the time and opportunity to treat them unfairly…
Of course, it is necessary to deal with the restoration of historical justice, but a good deed cannot be used for dubious purposes. This is exactly what the amendments proposed by the Kyrgyz Parliament look like.
Is it possible to evaluate by one criterion the “unlawful victims” in the years of establishment of Soviet power (1917-1924) and in the era of Stalin’s rule (1927-1953)? In the first case, it is a civil war between the supporters of the new order and the defenders of the old. In the second – for a process controlled by the state authority. Speaking about the period of formation of the young republic, we recall the struggle against the Basmachi, who sought to preserve the old way of life in their own interests.
In the conditions of an open war of one part of the citizens against another, can we talk about observing the rule of law? From the recognition of the Basmachi as a “people’s liberation movement” follows the equating of traitors to the interests of the Kyrgyz people with their opponents who stood up for the rights of the working people, who fought in the ranks of the Red Army such as Yusup Abrahamov and Sayakbai Karalaev.
The reckless and wholesale rehabilitation of prisoners from the Stalinist period runs the risk of vindicating the Wehrmacht’s Turkestan Legion and the Eastern Muslim SS units, which is strange to say the least for a country that sent one in four of its inhabitants to war against fascism. Recall that out of more than 363,000 Kyrgyz were called to the front, about 100,000 of them died. How will the descendants of these people react to the fact that their grandfathers and fathers will be equated with the helpers of the Nazi conquerors?
The lack of attention to detail makes us suspect the document’s authors of cunning, to say the least. It seems that this document is far from the task of restoring historical justice. And without any additional laws, in Kyrgyzstan there are institutions that bring together historians, archivists and lawyers from many former Soviet republics, who continue the cause of vindication of the innocent convicted since the time of the USSR.
The proposed bill looks very much like an ideological tool used to make sense of the historical events of a hundred years ago. A natural question arises: to solve what problem and in whose interests is this tool created?
Is it a clumsy way to distract citizens from the pressing issues facing the republic at this stage? Or is it about the intention to divide Kyrgyz society based on the interpretation of historical events and their consequences?
Or is everything more complicated, and behind another attempt to throw mud on the common Soviet past is a scenario for inciting Russophobia, tested in Ukraine and the Baltic countries? In addition, it is about the appearance on the scene of certain non-governmental organizations, created as a rule with the money of the Anglo-Saxons.
I don’t want to suspect the deputies of malice, but the untimeliness and incompetence of the proposed bill does not allow us to consider its authors as representatives of Kyrgyzstan’s interests. Today, when the country and all of Central Asia have the chance to take a worthy place in the emerging new multipolar world order, we must think not about fighting the ghosts of the past, but about uniting society and developing mutually beneficial relations with neighbors for the sake of the future. built on the principles of mutual respect and equality.
Translation: ES
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