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Kimmo Huosionmaa
When we are trying to remember something, we face the thing, what sometimes distorts and dominates the memories, what has been told and written about some things that happen or what claimed to happen. One of those things is the NKVD, and the second one is the GULAG when we are talking as an example about the Soviet Union. And of course that state made also one war crime, it executed thousands of Polish officers in the place, what is known as Katýn.
The brutal crime and mass murder of Polish officers by orders of the Stalin himself with NKVD:s supreme commanders like Yezhov and Beria. I always thought that the real supervisor of those crimes was Beriya because Yezhov was the drug addict and very good choice for the scapegoat and after this crime NKVD:s most unpopular chief was executed by orders of Stalin, who was blamed Yezhov about the crimes, what he was ordered himself.
That way is common when some gangsters are in the courtroom. The main criminals blame their henchmen about the crimes, what they are ordered, and play some kind of angel, and we can think Stalin as the normal criminal, who just had changed to make the very large scale crimes. The demonization of the criminals makes them look like more dangerous than they are. And if we think that Stalin was the head of the gang, what took the all-state as they area, we might be right. Those men who worked in his secret police were nothing more than murderers who worked under the official authority.
Yezhov was suitable for this kind of operations, because of his addiction he was dependent on the injections and another person. And addiction made him very good perfect mask-man for Stalin and his notorious executioners. Yezhov was sadist and brutal man, who was responsible for many things, but he was easily controlled by the men, who gave him opium. And when he was executed, we must say that he was the perfect enemy of the people.
The remarkable thing about this war crime is that Katýn is remembered only because the people, who were shot were officers. After the Second World War the Soviet Union execution many trials against "the enemies of the people" in the Eastern block of Europe, and none of the victims of those trials have ever remembered. This is the question, what sometimes is under the discussions in some circles, what thinks about morality and the people relationship about morale, and we must establish that in sometimes the victims of the Katýn are remembered because they were officers.
When we are talking about the people who made crimes, we must see that every time in the court of law, there will remember only the bad things about the person, who is prosecuted some crime. And in those situations is visible how some persons forget they own role in the fights. Also, we must notice, that there will be also remembered only the last action, about the fights. That is the problem with police and other investigators. They see just the last thing, what is done in that situation. The things what have done before that fight or some other action, what brought the person in the courtroom as the accused of some criminal activity.
There is a principle in the western court system, that person is innocent until the authorities prove that person is guilty. And if somebody is suspected of a crime, that is the thing, what should not tell other persons. The thing, what will tell to some person that the charges might be raised, are that the person's faces very strong bureaucracy in their life. There will be many double checks in every time when this person makes something, and also there will be found many other things like slow reaction if this person is asking for help
