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Thierry Wolton: "Why there was no Nuremberg trial of Soviet communism"

2022-05-08T17:59:56.127Z


TRIBUNE - A solemn moral condemnation of Soviet communism and a judgment of criminals, called for in the 1990s by some Russian dissidents, was very difficult to implement and has not been undertaken. But such a renunciation helped to make possible...


Thierry Wolton is the author, in particular of

A world history of communism

in three volumes at Grasset, which made an event:

Les Executioners

(2015),

Les Victimes

(2016),

Les Complices

(2017), price Today 2018.

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The violence of the methods of warfare used by Russia in Ukraine takes us back to a time we hoped was over in Europe, as if the clocks had stopped.

To a certain extent, this is the case, not at the time of the "Great Patriotic War" of 1941-1945, as Putin would have us believe with his words on "denazification", but in 1991, at the fall of the USSR.

For want of having measured the impact of this event, for want of having taken stock of what the decades spent under this regime have been for the peoples concerned, for want of Western democracies having measured the accumulated suffering, we we are witnessing a return to history, flabbergasted by so much cruelty coming precisely from this unsettled past.

After 1991, the communism page

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Source: lefigaro

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