April 21, 2014 year Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the rehabilitation of the peoples of the Crimea, victims of Stalinist repression. The head of the Russian State said at a meeting of the State Council and the Presidential Council's realization of priority national projects and demographic policy. "I would like to inform colleagues that I signed the Decree on the rehabilitation of Crimean Tatar population of Crimea, the Armenian population, Germans, Greeks, all those who suffered during the Stalinist repressions," said Putin.
On the preparation of such a decision by the head of State said earlier, during the "straight line" on April 17. His words have raised "alertness", "amazement" and "alarming" some Azerbaijani commentators, who considered them as Baku haggin.az portal, "Armenian" and "signal".
As we have informed, Vladimir Putin, in particular, said: "We, my colleagues in the Government and the presidential administration, now engaged in the preparation of the Decree on the rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatar people. But not only the Crimean Tatar, because during the time of Stalin's repression and the Armenians, Germans, and Greeks. Therefore, we must recall the representatives of all peoples ".
This is what alarmed. "Or we don't know something, or this was taken (Russian President) with pages already written by someone and not yet published stories, "the paper writes. So Azerbaijan Edition offers a tongue-in-cheek version of history: "Chechens Stalin sent her, the Abkhazians drove out the Russians and Germans whole colonies of vyselâl in hungry steppe of Kazakhstan. Of the burial depths of the now donesëtsâ vote with a characteristic accent: "Armenians never punished! There was no such! From you, Comrade Putin, such naprasliny I didn't expect … Unfortunately, not donesëtsâ, but because the declared to the whole world will be perceived as pure truth …, "sneers the author notes.
However, whether in this case the irony, is there any reason to blame Russian President in ignorance of history? For the answer to this question will have to recall some of the events of the 70-year-old, though, they seemed already widely known.
Start with the fact that during this period the mass deportation of persons of various nationalities has become a form of political repression. Only during the great patriotic war were resettled peoples and population groups 61 nationalities.
In the spring and summer of 1944 g. by order of the State Defense Committee (gko) and signed. IN THE. Stalin deported Crimea order of 230 thousand people. All of them were accused of "treason" and "aiding the occupiers". The operation to evict the Crimean Tatars began May 18, 1944 years. Was carried out by its troops of the NKVD. "The operation lasted 2.5 days, there were more than 70 railway trains. In full measure worked the principle of collective guilt and collective responsibility: in "treason and aiding the occupiers is accused of old men, women, babies, former underground and guerrilla forces, war invalids and veterans, members of the Communist Party and Komsomol members, families of the soldiers killed on the front or continue to serve in the army.
Already May 29, 1944 people's Commissar of Internal Affairs L.p. Beria reported I.v. Stalin: "after the eviction of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea continues to work on identifying and seizing the NKVD USSR anti-Soviet element, pročeska, etc. On the territory of Crimea is considered now the Bulgarians-12 075, Greeks-14 300 Armenians-9919. What follows is a detailed listing of all the sins of the people mentioned nationalities. That was evidenced, in particular, the following passages: "a large part of the Greeks, especially in coastal cities, with the arrival of the invaders was engaged in trade and industry", "Bulgarians participated in activities on preparation of bread", "organized by the Germans the Armenian Committee actively collaborated with the Germans and spent most anti-Soviet work." Therefore, mentioned in the report note, "NKVD believes it appropriate to undertake the eviction from the territory of Crimea all Bulgarians, Greeks, Armenians".
This was more than enough to June 27, 1944 NKVD troops began the second phase of "specpereseleniâ". Armenians, Bulgarians and Greeks evicted simultaneously, on the basis of the decision of the SCG from June 2, 1944 # 5984. On this document at the NKVD was assigned the task to send 37 thousand German supporters from among the Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians to settle in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Kemerovo Oblast of the RSFSR, guryev region of Kazakh SSR and of the Bashkir ASSR. Of course, as is the case with the Crimean Tatars, the penalty was absolutely a total character. For example, among the Crimean Armenians persecuted more than 70 people during the German occupation of the peninsula fought the invaders in guerrilla ranks, many were associated with the underground resistance. The same applies to the Bulgarians and Greeks. In any case, among representatives of all those people in Crimea the true patriots and just honest, decent people no during the difficult years of occupation not tainted, was much bigger than traitors. It is no coincidence of Adolf Hitler during the discussion of the proposal on the formation of a so-called German Wehrmacht command "the Caucasian captives" among legions of Soviet soldiers of the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani nationalities said: "I believe it is reliable only Muslims. All the others I find unreliable. At this point I think the formation of these purely Caucasian battalions very risky, while I don't see any danger in creating purely Muslim units … I don't know how Georgians will behave, I don't trust the Armenians also. "
It's not all about the "naprasliny", supposedly built by the President of the Russian Federation on the Stalinist leadership. Azerbaijani newspaper writes that "in the 50 's, with the consent of Stalin, Anastase Mikoânu (one of the major Soviet leaders, Member of the political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the Government of the USSR) from abroad without the necessary verification, repatriation to the USSR 100 thousand Armenian families. Most amazing is how they were placed here. They have lodged in the Rostov and Krasnodar regions, Georgia, Azerbaijan. One to one with painted Armenians (ARF "Dashnaktsutiun" party in this period acted exclusively outside the USSR) map of great Armenia.
Here everything is wrong. Repatriation of foreign Armenians really occurred, but was carried out immediately after the war, in 1946-1947 Gg. During this time in the Armenian SSR and a number of southern regions of the Soviet Union returned about 200 thousand citizens of Armenian nationality. These were survivors of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in the year 1915, miraculously fleeing and shelter in different countries of the world, as well as their descendants. No "greater Armenia", of course, they didn't think their only desire was to settle on the part of the motherland, which was revived during the Soviet period. Another thing that Stalin and his entourage were associated with their repatriation far-reaching plans, and were allowed and organized the return of these people. Professionals today are well aware that the Soviet leadership vile plans of joining the USSR a number of territories of Turkey, in particular, Karsskoj and Ardahan regions. It was about restoring the old Russian-Turkish border in 1914 year configuration. These new territories were to be divided between the Georgian SSR and Armenian SSR. To do this, and needed a contingent of Armenian immigrants, who planned to settle in these lands. However, very soon, when NATO began to form, a founding member of which was Turkey, it became clear that the implementation of such plans might give rise to a crisis of global scale, and Stalin from his ideas. The Armenians are returnees were not needed. And in 1948-1949 Gg. tens of thousands of people (up to half of all new arrivals) were deported to remote regions of the Soviet Union, particularly in Altai Krai.
Amid all this is extremely biased and inappropriate looks, the prosecution of the President of the Russian Federation, the Russian leadership in ignorance of history, moreover, that such an accusation is filed in the razuhabistom, erničeskom tone. As you can see, no "Armenian reservations" in the words of Vladimir Putin was not. Accordingly, there was no "signals". We believe that if the Russian side would like to send the official Baku a "signal", it will be found very different ways and forms which were unrelated to the current conditions of the Azerbaijani anti-Armenian propaganda.
Guy Borisov REGNUM NEWS AGENCY, political analyst
