«Your words of greeting will sound like a justification of murder..»
On May 10, the Chechen news agencies ran a commentary on the U.S. president's decision to attend the Victory Day commemoration, which included a military parade on Red Square. It noted that President Bill Clinton traveled to Moscow in 1995 to attend the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Victory Day, but did not attend the main military parade at Poklonnaya Gora in western Moscow in order to avoid being seen as endorsing the first military campaign in Chechnya, which was then six months old.
"If, ten years ago, due to the war in Chechnya, President Bill Clinton could not allow himself to attend the military parade in Moscow in honor of the 50th anniversary of the victory over fascism because the sacred principles of democracy would not allow such a thing, then now attitudes toward a similar situation have changed fundamentally," the Chechenpress commentary read. "Another American president, George Bush, took part in the festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the USSR's victory over fascism despite the fact that…
Yeltsin was replaced by a ruler who unleashed a crueler war in Chechnya and embarked on the path of curtailing democratic reform in Russia; who, moreover, does not simply regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, but is trying with all his might to reanimate Soviet fascism in the person of Stalin."
For his part, Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, the new Chechen President, wrote a commentary that Chechen agencies published on May 9 that was addressed to the more than 50 world leaders who would attend the 60th anniversary of Victory Day celebrations that day.
"The truth for many peoples, including the Chechen people, consists in an objective assessment of the results of the Second World War that cardinally differs from the Russian interpretation," Sadulaev wrote.
"The fact is that 60 years ago one form of fascism (Hitlerite Nazism) was forcibly crushed by another form (Stalinist socialism) no less inhuman and cruel toward the `liberated' peoples. Practically a half-century occupation of the countries of Eastern Europe, the deportation of the indigenous peoples of the Caucasus and Baltic in the northern regions of the country, massive repression against its own citizens put the USSR and its communist leadership headed by Stalin on the same level as the Nazi leadership of Hitlerite Germany."
"In pronouncing high-sounding words about the `historical victory' over Nazi Germany sixty years ago," Sadulaev continued, "you, statesmen and politicians, will be pretending not to notice the unlimited lawlessness taking place on the territory of the tiny Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which has become an unwilling captive of the anti-popular Kremlin regime. Your words of greeting in the capital of the state-aggressor will sound like a justification of murder by Russian `death squads' of more than 25 percent of the Chechen state. Your handshakes with Putin and other Russian leaders will mean approval of the experience of the fascist concentration camps of Buchenwald and Auschwitz being applied by the Russian occupiers against the Chechens. And your plaudits to the Muscovites will be taken for delight at the murder of 45,000 Chechen children."
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