The crimes of the communist regime in Ukraine
The crimes of the communist regime in Ukraine

Author(s): Ihor Yukhnovskyi
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Recent History (1900 till today), Criminology, History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Summary/Abstract: Conclusion Th e Soviet Union has disintegrated. Disintegration signs originally appeared in 1960s. Practice is an indicator of the theory validity. Practice of the USSR construction has proved non-viability of the communism theory. Thus, the Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism “doctrine” turned out to be an unscientific doctrine. Th is “doctrine” belongs to the sort of sectarian ones. And the communist party that completely professes the principles laying in the construction of the USSR, cannot be considered to be a party, but rather is, a sect. There were different sects in the history of mankind. They gathered groups of people. They established, quite frequently, extremely severe rules of mutual relations between the members of a sect and finally collapsed. The Communist Bolsheviks sect has done a lot of harm to the people of the former USSR. Th e number of human victims in the USSR exceeded the number of victims that the mankind of the world has suffered throughout the history of its existence. It is necessary to understand and realize all the harm caused by communism in order to prevent such a misfortune in future. Therefore, in each country, especially in Ukraine the process of the society differentiation, into extremely rich and extremely poor is fraught with grave consequences. This process of impoverishment can be halted, first of all, by joint actions of the authorities and the society. We should build a society, specifically Ukrainian society of a predominant middle class. Uncontrolled development of oligarchic structures in the country automatically generates an antipode – communism. Therefore, the only way towards a reasonable, sustainable commonwealth is to provide beneficial political and economic conditions for the revival in Ukraine and in all other countries of a prevailing middle class. Revival and comprehensive support – that is what is necessary. Thus the main issue of our conference should be a consolidation of the nations in order to set up an international tribunal over the communism crimes as it has been made over the nazism. We should also find out who is really guilty in committing such severe crimes of communism. It could be those who had provoked Bolsheviks Communist revolt and had introduced communism principles. We should be able to figure it out by being well-informed through: legislation and true history. And to prevent such events in future, it is necessary to severely ban legitimization of the parties professing a criminal Communist ideology. Most important for, each country is to provide such conditions when the middle class of the country determines its national, political and economic development.

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