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Let’s talk today about state sadists.
In my country, professionals who torture people – punitive officers – have reappeared. In the year of the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism in Russia, the demand for punitive officers has grown. They are valuable personnel.
Soon, I am sure, they will open departments where, in practical classes conducted in soundproof rooms, comparative studies will be carried out on the effectiveness of torture used by the Inquisition and the Gestapo. The best students will be assigned to Mr. Chuychenko at the Ministry of Justice, while those who lag behind and have only mastered exercises with a mop will be sent to district police departments.
Once, the writer Vladimir Voinovich told me that he had met a man who had been in the NKVD in 1937 and in the Gestapo in 1942. When asked who was the better torturer, he replied to Voinovich. They tortured equally well, but there was one difference. “What was it?” asked Voinovich. The man replied, “The Gestapo wanted to know the truth from me.”
This is a terrible and accurate answer.
Torture of defenseless people in detention centers, courts, and prisons is only necessary to prove that the torturer is willing to carry out any order. Torture is a declaration of love for one’s homeland, a willingness to do anything for it, and, of course, to give oneself pleasure.
In the 1940s, the residents of the village of Dachau got used to the smoke from the camp ovens. One of them wrote in his memoirs that they thought there was no other air. Well, what can you do… It’s the smoke of the motherland. They got used to it.
Thousands of Ukrainian prisoners are still going through this torment. These are people we know almost nothing about, except that they are out there somewhere. People without names. They can be treated however they want. And they are treated however they want. Moans echo throughout Russia…
Honestly, it seems like soon our country will be celebrating Torturer Day, greeting each other with holiday wishes and wearing ceremonial uniforms.
After the victory over fascism in 1945, world-famous footage was shot at the Victory Parade. The flags of fascist regiments were thrown against the walls of the Kremlin by victorious soldiers. I was struck by the terrible thought that someone wants to rewind this film in reverse. Cruelty and a propensity for violence are contagious. It is no coincidence that executioners wear masks. Monuments to Stalin are now being erected throughout the country.
This is self-Stalinization.
They demand punishment, punishment, punishment, punishment.
This is self-fascism.
On May 9, like many of us, I listened to Putin’s speech on Victory Day. Then I listened again and again. To be honest, I couldn’t believe my ears. I listened several times. So, in the Russian president’s speech, there was not a single mention of victory over fascism. We started watching his previous speeches in the editorial office. It turned out that in the early years of Vladimir Putin’s rule, from 2000 to 2013, the president’s speeches at the Victory Day parade always included references to fascism. But since 2014, the word has begun to disappear. And since 2020, you won’t hear the word fascism at all.
They talk about Nazism.
Russia was and will remain an unbreakable obstacle to Nazism, Russophobia, and anti-Semitism. But fascism is no longer mentioned. Does this mean something? Does this mean that the love of the current popular ideologist Dugin for fascism is really becoming an ideology, or what? Like, the doctrine itself is good. It’s just that Hitler was a bad fascist.
But I know for sure that on May 9, 1945, the parade was in honor of the victory over fascism. And it was to prevent fascism from returning. Now, when everyone is talking about the threat of world war, someone has to spit on all this geopolitics and remind us every day about the fate of a girl tortured in a detention center. How can people who torture a child in prison build a just world order? This is how this multipolar world is connected to a specific cell in a Moscow prison, where a girl is being tortured because people who torture a girl cannot build a just world order.
