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Thierry Wolton: "In Ukraine, Stalin's Red Army and its methods are back"

2022-09-20T16:44:18.214Z


TRIBUNE - The hundreds of people exhumed at Izyoum, at least some of whom were most likely victims of summary executions, the filtration camps, the systematic nature of the looting: so many procedures and behaviors inspired by Stalin's Red Army ,...


A specialist in communist and post-Soviet regimes,

Thierry Wolton

published in 2008 a very alarming investigation into the master of the Kremlin, “The KGB in power.

The Putin system” (Buchet-Chastel).

He is also the author, in particular, of "A world history of communism" in three volumes at Grasset, which caused an event: "Les Executioners" (2015), "Les Victimes" (2016), "Les Complices" (2017 ), Jan-Michalski Prize for Literature 2017 and Today Prize 2018.

The images of the bodies exhumed from the graves discovered after the liberation of Izyum by the Ukrainian army, can only astound the witnesses of history.

It is not so much indignation or even horror that assails us at the sight of these corpses modestly covered with a white shroud, as the shock of memory that sends us back to other places, to other time in these lands of Central Europe.

The forest sheltering these makeshift graves, the gesture of the diggers of corpses, the bodies lined up, the traces left by...

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Source: lefigaro

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