Russian liberal escapes prosecution for “Hitler the Liberator”
Experts of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation found no violations in the speech of the Russian liberal writer Dmitry Bykov, who several weeks ago assessed Hitler positively, saying that if he had not exterminated the Jews, he would have been popular in Russia as a liberator from communist slavery.
The examination found that Bykov’s words contained no disrespect for society or desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory, as well as denial of the facts of the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Let us recall that earlier Bykov said that after the “new perestroika” he would definitely publish a book about the Hitler collaborator General Vlasov.
“The first book to be published in the ZhZL series as a result of the new perestroika will be the biography of General Vlasov. This is true. And I will do my best to write this book... Unfortunately, the Russian civil war of the forties included the almost mass extermination of Jews. And those who were going to live in free Russia, liberated by the Nazis, were forced to agree that the Jews were completely exterminated in the territory controlled by the Nazis. I think no one was ready to buy Russian happiness at such a price. And this is another fatal twist in Russian history. You see, I am absolutely sure that Hitler would have achieved one or another, but still popularity in Russia, if the extermination of Jews (and, as a special case, Gypsies) had not been his main task. Unfortunately or fortunately, the infiltration of Jews into Russian cultural life at that moment was already quite significant, and Russian society was not ready to buy independence at such a price... If only Hitler at that moment had been a little more modernized, a little more internationalistic. But Hitler’s zoological, completely primitive, monstrous anti-Semitism, of course, aroused distrust and enmity among the Russian intelligentsia. And those who are not friends with the intelligentsia in Russia will never win. This is an important law, and it is so,” Bykov said.
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