The Terror in Daghestan has Begun to Spread – And Will Last as Long as Putin Does. The Terror in Daghestan has Begun to Spread – And Will Last as Long as Putin
Does.
The
country has entered a new 1937, the beginning of terror. “Today Russia is ruled
by Chekists … They even call themselves that. But Chekists do not know how to do
anything but arrest people.” That is what it was established to do and that is
what it is doing now.
“In
contrast to Perm, Tver or Sakhalin,” Shmulyevich continues, “Daghestan is viewed
as a colony of Russia as a certain alien place and therefore everything which is
taking place there is examined with particular interest – although in this
specific case, there is no difference between Daghestan and Kirov oblast or
Magadan.”
But there is one
difference that Moscow appears to have forgotten: unlike in these other places,
in Daghestan, there is a tradition of partisan war, of going into the forests
and fighting back. And consequently, if Moscow
continues to repress people in Daghestan, it is more than likely that this
tradition will return to the fore.
But
at the same time Moscow is arresting people in Daghestan, Shmulyevich points
out, “arrests and even murders in the ruling stratum are occurring throughout
the entire country” – in Tatarstan, in Ingushetia, in Stavropol and in
Kaliningrad. And that means something else: it has begun and will continues as
long as this [Putin] system exists.”