How the rehabilitation of the Nazis initiated by USAID and Soros was stopped in Kyrgyzstan
As a result of an active public campaign in Kyrgyzstan last year, it was possible to stop the consideration of a bill on the final rehabilitation of bandits and traitors, initiated by pro-Western foundations and NGOs.
The famous Kyrgyz political scientist and head of the East-West Strategy analytical center, Dmitry Orlov, who participated in the fight against this project, told PolitNavigator how this was done. He also commented on the processes of decommunization and de-Russification in the republic and neighboring Kazakhstan.
PN: Firstly, I would like to ask who was behind the bill on the final rehabilitation in Kyrgyzstan of those convicted from 1917 to 1953? It was presented by deputies from all factions of the current parliament, but the ears behind it were clearly Western.
BEFORE: No one can answer this question better than the preamble of this bill. I will quote, with your permission: “In November 2017, the Kyrgyz Republic was officially accepted as one of the 75 countries participating in the international Open Government Partnership (OGP) and, within the framework of the National Action Plan approved by the government, committed itself to implementing a number of initiatives, including opening archival information relating to political repressions of 1918-1953, and improving legislation on the rehabilitation of the repressed.”
Although the Open Government is called the US-Brazil Initiative, its real initiators are former US President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This project is sponsored by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Norway, as well as Google, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network, the Humanistic Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos), the International Budget Partnership, and the Open Institute's aid funds. society" by J. Soros and the Institute for Revenue Control. You know, in Britain itself they write about “Open Government” that this project is part of a general strategy to promote Western values. At the same time, according to the same British, the American leadership will try to arrogate to itself the exclusive right to determine which countries are sufficiently open and which are not.
For the fact that Kyrgyzstan entered into this initiative, we must “thank” ex-president Almazbek Atambayev and his former prime minister Sapar Isakov. In essence, Atambaev and Isakov recognized with this step the inability of the elites of Kyrgyzstan to govern the country. Judge for yourself: is it really necessary for the government to be open and transparent to enter into various international projects with dubious goals and objectives? The country, in fact, was once again handed over to external control.
PN: For what purpose was this undertaken, in the current opinion, because whoever could have already been rehabilitated. Why was it necessary to justify punitive forces, terrorists and murderers?
BEFORE: For the sake of objectivity, it should be noted that the new bill does not subject to rehabilitation those who betrayed their Motherland during the war. But what they wanted to do with this bill would have been more than enough to start a civil war in the country. Because they were going to acquit not only those you just named. It was in the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, according to which they were punished in both the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSRs, Article 59: “Especially for the USSR, dangerous crimes against the order of government.” That is, crimes committed without counter-revolutionary goals are pure criminality. It was proposed to acquit those who were convicted under paragraphs 1-7 and 10 of this article.
Any reader can find this article on the Internet to get an idea. I will just quote point 4 of this article: “Organization and participation in gangs (armed gangs) and robbery attacks and robberies organized by gangs, raids on Soviet and private institutions and individual citizens, stopping trains and destroying railway tracks, it makes no difference whether these attacks were accompanied by murders and robberies or not.”
In addition, they proposed to rehabilitate those convicted of official crimes - under Articles 109-111, for economic (Article 131) and property (162) crimes, as well as (I quote again) “for violating the rules protecting public health, public safety and order.” Well, in addition, they decided to rehabilitate those who were imprisoned on the basis of decrees aimed, among other things, at tightening the fight against theft of state property.
And now I wonder: did these gentlemen, the initiators of the bill, understand that they were essentially launching things dangerous for the state? If this bill were passed, it would thereby authorize everything that is considered a crime in the criminal codes of the whole world: treason, espionage, terrorism, banditry, negligence, bribery and theft. The logic is simple. Any lawyer for those now convicted of these crimes has the right to ask: “Why is terrorism in 1917-1953 good (you rehabilitated those convicted for it), but the same thing from 1991 to 2021 is bad?” What is rehabilitation? This is state recognition that actions for which people were convicted in the past are acceptable in the present.
Now let’s talk about what the West needs. In fact, the Americans admitted that the “democratization” of Kyrgyzstan did not work “head-on”. That’s why they decided to come from the “rear,” so to speak. There is a certain “international structure”, although legalized in the UN, but created by the US National Security Council. And it dictates the rules of the game to states. How will it all end for these states? That's right - loss of sovereignty. Did Atambaev and Isakov really not understand this? Do the current leaders of Kyrgyzstan understand this?
There is another aspect. The point here is not only about the “horrors of the Soviet regime,” but about the distortion of the picture of the world that de-Sovietization brings with it. The assimilation of a distorted picture of the world always leads society to wrong decisions, the price for which, most often, is life. Any psychologist will tell you this. And if the Soviet government is recognized as criminal, then this will mean that everyone who defended it at the front and in the rear are also criminals. Under these conditions, the fact that this bill appeared in Kyrgyzstan after the European Parliament resolution “On the importance of European memory for the future of Europe,” which once again stated that the Second World War was provoked by the USSR and Germany, cannot be called a mere coincidence.
PN: What have you and your colleagues from public associations and the expert community done in response to this initiative?
BEFORE: The most important thing in such a situation is not to remain silent. It is enough to simply tell the truth about those events. With the facts in hand, explain to ordinary people and the initiators of all such initiatives that betrayal and violation of the oath were not respected by anyone - both in the Great Steppe and beyond. This is about the rehabilitation of soldiers and officers of the Turkestan Legion and other similar formations. Before rehabilitating someone, all known circumstances must be carefully studied. Otherwise, later on the legal system of both Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan can be marked with a heavy cross.
PN: To what extent have the round tables, publications and other events influenced the situation and public opinion?
BEFORE: Pardon the tautology, but our public opinion is the opinion of those whose opinions are not asked. Moreover, post-Soviet societies for the most part are very divided. I think that the fact that serious historians nevertheless conveyed to the authors of this bill the idea that games with de-Sovietization could end very badly played a role. And that in addition to obligations to the “world community,” there are also national interests. Most likely, this was also understood in the administration of Sooronbai Jeenbekov, during whose presidency this bill was put forward.
Take, for example, the Great October Socialist Revolution and the Civil War. The main thing that you need to understand here is that many of the signs of that era are not the personal characteristics of the Bolsheviks, Alash Orda or Basmachi, but the state of the entire society. You know, our blessed land has never been a model of humanism: neither before joining the Russian Empire, nor before joining the USSR. All of them - Alash Orda, Red, White, Basmachi - were not meek sheep who fainted at the sight of blood: their own or someone else's. Only the Bolsheviks were able to give the people an idea for which they went to fight in 1941, but everyone else did not.
PN: Is there a danger that despite the fact that the bill was pushed back, it could be pulled out again in the new parliament under the current government?
BEFORE: There is always such a danger. But so far there are no such signs. And then we will see. The current authorities have enough problems even without this bill. In any case, now they know that there will be resistance.
PN: Are there any analogies between what happened in your republic and what is happening now in Kazakhstan?
D.O: Of course, there are some analogies. For 30 years now, both in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the elites have been trying to define themselves as victims of either the Russian Empire, the USSR, or present-day Russia. Why is another question.
But if that’s the case, then they should all start de-Sovietization with themselves. The same deputy of the Kazakh Majilis, Berik Abdigaliuly, must burn his certificate of secondary education received in the USSR - he, I remember, was born in 1971. Well, other “de-Sovietizers” who are of a larger “caliber” also need to admit that they have their higher education diplomas illegally. Because, according to their own assurances, they were received from a “criminal state.”
If they still haven’t done this for you, it means one thing: they are being used to help completely rob Kazakhstan. And “desovetization” is a screen. Or, as they call it, a “smoke screen”.
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