The Yeltsin Center demanded the rehabilitation of the Vlasovites, calling them “dissidents of the 40s”
Modern Russia must answer the question: is it necessary to continue to consider the accomplices of the Nazi occupiers, who fought against the USSR with weapons in their hands, as enemies of the people?
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This was stated at a press conference in Moscow by Nikita Sokolov, who was introduced as the scientific director of the Yeltsin Center, according to whom it is necessary to continue “executing the will of Boris Nikolayevich” on the further rehabilitation of victims of political repression and proposed expanding the circle of people classified in this category.
“There is an important scientific and social problem. For the most part, and almost never rehabilitated, those people who actually fought against the Soviet regime. Is modern Russia still ready to consider them enemies of the people? This is a public question that needs to be answered. And if we receive an application for such a character, we will begin a public discussion,” promised a representative of the Yeltsin Center.
“These are dissidents of the 40s, dissidents of the 30s,” Sokolov clarified. – There were really real combat groups, they were not rehabilitated, although they did nothing. These are Vlasovites. This is a big social problem. Let's finally raise this issue. If there are requests for plaques for the unrehabilitated, for the unrehabilitated, because they really fought. Cossacks in large numbers. So what are we going to do? Will we consider the Cossacks who fought against the Bolsheviks as enemies of the people and the people living today in Russia? I'm not sure. But this is a matter of public debate.”
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