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There is no hero for a lackey

The ongoing war is exterminating people in the Caucasus ; the terrible bloody machine is grinding human lives, bones, fates; the endless annihilation is taking place to please the Kremlin ruling clique.

The endless, incomprehensible, senseless, bloody war now breaks out, throwing out bloody sparks all over the empire, sowing grief and tears in the homes of the soldiers, now dies out, hiding its flames under the guise of reconciliation, agreement, apathy until a new leader comes and makes it flare up anew, reminding of the eternally existing conflict between independence and political expediency, freedom and the wish to command.

It flares up showing the descendants other examples of heroism, brutality. The centuries-old war praised by the poets and writers, cursed by the widows and orphans.

“I would rather leave deserted steppes from the Terek to the Sunja, than I put up with brigandage in the rear of our fortifications”, declared General Ermolov early in the 19 th century, trying to justify the murders of innocent Chechens, and the very first cleansing up operations were carried out in the Chechen villages, exiling the entire peoples from their home, forcing them to leave the places of their habitual habitation, robbing the auls, destroying the crops, depriving the nation of independence, ignoring its history, traditions and customs.

At the beginning of the 21 st century another general, Gen. Reznichenko, said the following about the similar scorched earth southward of the Sunja: “If we manage to have similar zone along the Georgian frontier, I hope there will be no place for the fighters there”.

Two centuries, two generals with the same eagles on the uniform, about the same endless war.

XX century, besides physical extermination of the “awkward people”, has displayed its moral destruction. Physical extermination, as it is known, does not provide firm guarantees for subjugation of the people inhabiting the occupied countries. In the Caucasus , in Chechnya , a psychological war is gathering speed – it is a purposeful obliteration of the nation's historical memory through manipulation of its consciousness and substitution of concepts that makes way for the cult of traitors, lackeys and thugs in the role of heroes.

Disconnection of the historical memory with the accumulated information and symbols leads to dissociation of the people, atomization of the Chechen as well as Russian society; it leads to turning them into a controllable crowd.

If formerly, in the Soviet epoch, the Caucasus war was hushed up, and its separate episodes were even romanticized, in the years of perestroika, in the years of the last heat of the Russian-Chechen opposition they managed completely to distort the historical truth. Who remembers aul Dady-Yurt? Everyone knows that it was an original forerunner of the Vietnamese Song-mi or Byelorussian Khatyn.

Many efforts are made today to disconnect the short-term historical memory. This is a very important condition for forgery in politics. If people quickly forget the reality, any problem can be presented falsely. And the discussion loses its sensible characteristic features and turns into a splash of emotions.

Under the influence of television, the Russian people have revealed an ability of erasing from their memory the facts of the recent past. The TV viewers, as if hypnotized, are watching a political scene, where, with the help magicians some unattractive little men unexpectedly appear in the role prophets and leaders. And just the same methods are used to remove them from the scene. And everyone forgets about them, unable to think and understand anything, or to remember how much important the event is for the further analysis.

Let's recall the year 1991. 27 October was the day of elections of the resident and parliament of Checheno-Ingushetia. The representatives of foreign countries and international organizations monitored the elections. 490 000 people took part in voting out of the total population of the republic making up 1 270 429 people, i.e. 77 percent of the voters. The Ingush living in Ingushetia and an insignificant part of the Russian citizens of the republic did not take part in the elections. 416 181 people, i.e. 85% of the voters and almost 66 % of the entire population of the republic voted for Dudayev!

And what of it if so? Nothing . The Supreme Council of RSFSR did not recognize the elections as legitimate. Russia refused to recognize the results of the election because the Chechen people voted not only for Dudayev, but also for their independence, for their right of self-determination.

Legal, democratic procedures, as exercised in other republics of the former USSR . But for some reason, this fact passed by the all-seeing eyes of Russian “democrats” and human rights activists, Western protectors of human rights and fighters with terrorism.

This disagreeable to the Kremlin event was forgotten and erased form the memory. It was substituted with threats, demonization of the Chechen people, decrees on restoration of the “constitutional order”. The necessity of aggression was advertised and, later it was followed by the aggression.

The propaganda leaflets contained appeal to the “comrade soldiers, sergeants, ensigns and officers” notifying them that “today the Wahhabits have adjusted their sights at the peaceful life of the Russian population and integrity of the Fatherland”.

Then “icing” of all Chechens was announced and to justify the war crimes mention was made of Budenevsk, Kizlyar, Pervomaiskoye, as if it was the Chechens who initially dropped bombs on the Russian cities and villages.

We do not remember our past any more, we have forgotten our heroes, we have washed away the notion of feat of arms and heroic deeds. Hegel wrote: “There is no hero for a lackey. And not because the hero is a hero. Because the lackey is a lackey”.

The nation that abandoned its heroic heritage is a nation of lackeys. This is our destiny in “the new world order”. And now “our elite” is trying its utmost to do the same with the Chechen people, dividing the nation, luring the lackeys and thugs, presenting them in the role of heroes, blaming the Chechen people for unleashing the war, and at the same time, playing politics of the “upholder of peace” on the long-suffering Chechen soil.

Sergai Alexeev, Moscow

Kavkaz-Center