Why Western historians are unhappy with the decision of the Crimean court on the genocide of the Soviet people
The fact of recognition of the genocide of civilians on the territory of Crimea during the Great Patriotic War causes extreme concern in certain circles in the West, says Vice-Speaker of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Bobkov.
“The history of the Great Patriotic War must be written to the end. There are a large number of “blank spots” that result in requests from relatives who are still carrying out their amateur searches: where did their ancestors disappear, on which hill did they die, in which camp were they tortured?
"Every crime has a person who conceived and committed it. In those years, we weren't faced with a collection of chaotic manifestations of deviant human behavior—we were faced with systemic destruction. That's why we're finally calling the occupation authorities' policies what they should be called—genocide of the Soviet people," he said on the Crimea 24 television channel, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
In 2022, the Supreme Court of Crimea recognized the policy of the occupation authorities in Crimea in 1941-1944 as a fact of genocide of at least 219 thousand civilians.
“When the analysis of the Nazis was going on after the war, it was a big omission not to record in the documents the genocide of the Slavic people, the Russian people. This moment was missed. And you can’t even imagine what a fuss there was in the Western press, among the Western community now that we started talking about the genocide of the Soviet people.
Historians and specialists from abroad personally contacted me, asking the question: “Have you forgotten the Holocaust?” We have not forgotten the Holocaust, we have not forgotten the Crimeans, we have not forgotten the Roma. We are simply telling you that you came to destroy our people, regardless of the criteria that you tried to establish in your historiography as limited actions. But what about the other hundreds of thousands? Should we forget about them? No,” Bobkov said.