Budyonnovsk: a quarter of a century later – betrayal is eternal
Today, 25 years have passed since the day when a group of terrorists led by Shamil Basayev attacked the city of Budennovsk in the Stavropol region. The bandits seized the local hospital and took hostages, who were used as human shields. They placed them in the windows, covering the unfortunate machine guns.
What was it? They showed us firsthand: where it’s weak, that’s where it breaks. In a global context. Nobody respects the weak. The weak are used. The weak are bent down. Then we were bent over - the whole country. The terrorists deceived the Russian government, and then the Russian people. After Budyonnovsk, people continued to die in Chechnya.
Andrei Medvedev published on his Facebook the words of Bulat Okudzhava, spoken by the poet on Radio Liberty in 1995.
“In your opinion, who is Shamil Basayev: a new Robin Hood or a terrorist killer?
“What he did is, of course, sad and tragic. But I think that someday they will erect a large monument to him. Because he is the only one who was able to stop the massacre.
“But civilians died in the hospital.”
“But before that, fifty thousand civilians died.”
– But everyone knows that Shamil Basayev was behind many terrorist acts...
– Are you judging Shamil Basayev in general or are you talking about this specific act?
– If we talk about Shamil Basayev in general, I’m not a lawyer, I’m not informed enough... If we talk about what happened in Budennovsk, it’s sad and tragic, but the war is more tragic than this act. And that’s why I think that someday they will erect a monument to him.”
History has demonstrated that Okudzhava was wrong about “stopping the massacre.” And his words, in principle, are blasphemy. However, there were many such “sympathizers” then. First of all, among the notorious intelligentsia.
And so, in fact, it has always been. Didn't they sympathize with the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War? Or Napoleon? Or even Hitler? They are the “conscience of the nation”, “bearers of the highest truth” - as the “sympathizers” called themselves.
And now? It's the same now. That's the sadness. The fact is that the lessons, it seems, are not only not learned, but will never be learned. After Budyonnovsk, “Nord-Ost” and Beslan happened. And 15 years after the tragedy, an information wave arose in the latter. Bloggers, journalists and some infernals began to pick at old wounds. The essence of these tinkering boiled down to one thing: the authorities are to blame for everything, something like this (Beslan, Nord-Ost, Budyonnovsk) can only happen in Russia...
Unfortunately, all this is as familiar as it is disgusting. Western foundations (Soros, for example) spend huge amounts of money maintaining such chimeras. They fly in the information field and infect the consciousnesses of millions. Therefore, it is quite standard that in the West they sympathize with Chechen terrorists, portraying them as victims. Some do this because of misinformation, while others simply chose a side in the war (the one of the highest generation).
“Understand, Russians, not everything is so simple”: The Current Time TV channel, owned by Radio Liberty and Voice of America and financed through grants from the US Congress, tells Russians that Basayev was a “separatist leader.”
But why are its citizens so willing to slander their state, turning to critical shots towards the country and people? What guides the intellectuals who seem to have a passport with a double-headed eagle? Is it only for money from foundations that they broadcast such things? No.
It’s just that they often strangely coexist with an ostentatious passion for repentance (not one’s own, by the way, as a rule, but for a collective one) and banal betrayal. Carefully dressing up in sheep's clothing with rhinestones, they remain not wolves - not even, but jackals. And they love to howl, feeding on carrion. This does not negate their talent in this or that environment (the poetic talent of the same Okudzhava), but this is not an indulgence, no.
It’s just that, you see, Akhedzhakov’s mediocre nonsense is already quite boring. Especially if there is no talent left.
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