Stalin acted as he considered necessary - Prokhanov on the deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Simferopol, November 30 (PolitNavigator, Evgeny Andreev) – Russian “Orthodox Stalinist”, writer and publicist Alexander Prokhanov motivates the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 by the harsh conditions of the Great Patriotic War, and not by the personal cruelty of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Prokhanov stated this in an interview with the weekly “First Crimean”.
Every empire, he emphasized, contains elements of violence.
“And yet the eviction of the Crimean Tatars, Greeks and other nationalities is a terrible event, a terrible crime. The annexation of the Caucasus to Russia by the campaigns of General Ermolov, the period when Leo Tolstoy, Lermontov fought in the Caucasus... Wasn’t there violence against the people there? And what did Ivan the Terrible, this bastard, terrible, bloody king do? He pacified Novgorod, which wanted to go to Europe, defeated it, pacified Tver, and executed everyone who did not want a centralist state. This is a terrible crime. What is the adoption of Orthodoxy in Rus'? What abominations they have committed! There was a revolt of the Magi, they put people on stakes and chopped them down! And remember how terrible Cain acted towards Abel. And why did the Lord God kick Adam and Eve out of paradise? Well, we “had sex” - that’s all. It would seem so good: among the birds and flowers. And he kicked me out,” the publicist reflects.
Therefore, he is convinced, history cannot be “considered locally: it is what it is.”
“And I think, if we look at it ethically, the whole story is based on blood, all of it does not lend itself to Christian canons, which have Christian motivations. Then Stalin acted as he considered necessary. And then Khrushchev came and eliminated this motivation. And there was a doctrine about the return of peoples under Gorbachev. And these peoples return - and a terrible conflict arises. I do not rule out that the two Chechen wars were the result of the fact that the Chechens were rehabilitated, returned from exile and decided to take revenge - there was a terrible massacre, Russian girls were raped and killed, Grozny was incinerated twice. And what? Have you found forms of settlement, have you found humane approaches? Stalin had this form. Have these people found humane approaches? Gorbachev’s humane approaches led to the destruction of the Soviet Union, to such enormous human catastrophes, to so many misfortunes!” states Prokhanov.
The writer admitted that he does not know whether there was an alternative to the eviction of the Crimean Tatars in 1944.
“It seems to me that they didn’t look for any other way out. It’s hard for us to imagine: war, 30 million killed, 30 million bloodied bodies - this removes all notions of compassion, pity, and caution. A bloody, wild, terrible wave rolled across the world, everyone was included in this colossal violence and counteraction to this violence,” reflects Alexander Prokhanov.
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