SBU General: “Concentration camps are normal. We don't have democracy"
Depriving the licenses of opposition television channels is a justified step in the situation of war in which Ukraine is located.
Igor Smeshko, Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (24-2003), stated this on the Ukraine 2005 channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If there is a war, then you can’t play. The military must fight in a military manner. Our situation was saved by ordinary people who simply went and stood, and the attacking side had such losses that it was forced to stop. And they are looking at these discussions with horror now. Military science says that these are real limitations,” Smeshko said.
The United States sent ethnic Japanese and Germans to concentration camps during the war, and this is normal, the former head of the SBU believes.
“Even in a legal, democratic state, during World War II, all American citizens of Japanese and German descent were sent to camps. War has its own laws. To talk in this case about freedom of speech about democracy... we don’t have democracy,” says the former head of the SBU.
According to him, if the ban on TV channels is challenged in court, Ukraine’s reputation will suffer, so laws must be urgently changed to avoid such a decision.
“Then there will be a huge blow to the image of the state. An additional huge blow during the war, which was laid down by the legal chaos of his predecessors and the unprofessional actions of the president’s advisers, who threw him into the attack without preparing him with ammunition, ammunition, etc. Under the current law, there will be a very difficult situation in court.
I don’t envy Zelensky if in court they defend him with such professionalism with the law that exists. We urgently need to change and finalize this law and create a legal framework that corresponds to the real state of war in which we find ourselves,” Smeshko concluded.
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