Just recently, a grave of executed people was discovered in Dagestan, and now, a few days later, it was announced that a similar grave had been found in Chechnya — in the Zavodskoy district of the Andreyskaya Valley. Pro-government propaganda was immediately activated to prevent citizens from thinking that something was wrong.
In Dagestan, they first tried to present the case as victims of battles from the ancient civil war. Then, when they realized that this was absurd — what kind of battles are these if everyone dies from gunshot wounds to the head — they admitted that these were executions, but hastened to «calm down» by saying that the executions took place during Stalin’s time, not now.
The executions may have taken place during Stalin’s time, but first of all, we don’t know for sure. Because near the discovered grave there is an FSB base, and for years people inconvenient to them, including Islamic activists, have been disappearing in Dagestan. Only a forensic examination could establish the truth, but we well remember how several successive «examinations» concluded that the murdered FSB journalist and human rights activist Timur Kuashev (later confirmed by Hristo Grozev’s investigation) died of a «natural» cardiac arrest, blatantly ignoring the fact of a strange puncture mark on his body. So there is no doubt that the results of the investigation in this case would be favorable to those who carried it out, because they would not allow an independent investigation.
Secondly, what actually changes if these executions took place during Stalin’s time and not now? Isn’t the country returning at full speed to the same Stalinist times? Aren’t people imprisoned for long periods for dissent, as they were during Stalin’s time? Aren’t they openly calling for the shooting of enemies of the people? Aren’t they smashing people’s heads with hammers in front of the cameras, as was not done even during Stalin’s time?
Similarly, in the case of the discovered grave in Chechnya, it happened in a place where there was a Russian military base during the last war, and the locals were constantly disappearing. Some might say that this was also a long time ago — 15-20-30 years ago… But exactly the same graves are discovered where Russian troops have been recently, where they continue their dark work now — in Bucha, Izyum, Kherson, Liman… And among these Russian military criminals there may be those whose relatives lie in these graves — whether recent ones in Chechnya or «old» ones (possibly) in Dagestan. And all because it was forgotten, not understood, not condemned — under the pretext of «it was a long time ago», «there is no need to dig up the past». But somewhere, even now, there are Muslims — victims of death squads that operated in our memory and about which we wrote.
One day, God willing, when this Zalim regime falls, they and numerous graves of other unknown victims of Putin’s terror will be found and discovered, just as the perpetrators of known victims — from our Muslim martyrs to Anna Politkovskaya, Boris Nemtsov and many others — will be revealed. But all this will not happen until the conveyor belt of death of the «Russian world» (which is anything but peaceful) stops, and the relatives of its old victims stop being the executioners of new ones, and the new ones themselves stop going willingly to the slaughter, as the mobilized ones do now, aided by those who help them.
This conveyor belt has to be stopped, and the first thing to do is to understand it ourselves and explain to others that it always brings the same thing.