Genocide Committed by Russia in Ukraine

In the history of humanity, the past 20th century made a special mark with the crime of genocide committed against various strata of society identified by race, nationality or medical and psychiatric characteristics. It all started with the genocide committed by Turks against the Armenian nation during and immediately after World War I. The baton in this vile relay race was taken over by the Soviet state, which first organized the genocide of Ukrainians during the "War Communism" and then engineered a man-made famine that led to the death of millions of mainly Ukrainian peasants in the 1920s, 1930s  and 1940s. During World War II, the Soviets directed the genocide of their own citizens of various nationalities, including Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Kalmyks, Ingush, Karachays, Balkars, Nogais, Meskhetian Turks and other nations in the territory of the USSR.

Next came the Japanese, who in the 1930s and 1940s in occupied Manchuria and Korea conducted the genocide of the Chinese and Korean peoples. Then, the killing of 6 million Jews, millions of Roma, people with mental illnesses and other categories of the doomed during Hitler's rule in Germany was unprecedented both in terms of the extent and technological advancement of the extermination process; moreover, in terms of the number of victims, it was the most mass genocide in history.

Each time the crime of genocide was committed, those who orchestrated it invoked suitable "scientific" grounds to "justify" it in the eyes of the world; nonetheless, the ideologists and perpetrators of such policy in Nazi Germany and Japan were duly punished by the International Tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo.

It would have seemed that those who supported the policy of genocide were clearly and convincingly signalled the response of the international community so that one could have hoped that the crime would not be repeated in the future. Unfortunately, those hopes proved vain, as already in the second half of the 20th century numerous cases of genocide emerged in various parts of the world. Suffice it to mention the policy of the Chinese ruling elites towards the Uyghurs, the crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia against its own people, the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, the events in the former Yugoslavia, etc. That deplorable history has now been carried over to the 21st century.

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