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Alex_P, and Belochka, both thought this question deserved to be placed on a new thread. Below is the statement of Alex_P, then my'n, then Belochka's statement. One of the main questions being :
Who participated in the mass murders of over 75,000,000 persons..what ever happened to them?Alex_P's : :
Re: Execution of Members of the Imperial CourtReply #9 - Jun 10th, 2006, 7:29pm Off topic, or not off topic, Tania's remarks above are exceptionally pertinent.
I, too, have wondered the same....all of the Chekistii, the NKVDistii, the OGPUiiste
who participated in the mass murders of over 75,000,000 persons...what ever happened to them? It is not exceedingly vulgar that they should be allowed to live out their ripe old ages on some pension somewhere? For example, the Hungarian-born butcher of Omsk, who murdered 25% of the population, today his entire family lives quite prosperouly in that city, impuniously, but known to all. I refer to the passage from St. Matthew....
Thank you, Tania. Someone had to finally raise this point. And it does not deserve to be passed over in silence. If a new topic is needed, then please let us make it. But let us discuss this point. I mean, frankly, if Hitler had a family, and if they had a survived, should they have been allowed to live in near-luxury in the midst of modern Berlin?
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My initial post :Perhaps it is off topic, but I wonder how many others have thought these same thoughts ? "I hope the souls of ALL those involved in the mass murder of Russia are darned for all time!"[/i]
Perhaps not very Christian to think, let alone to state, but when I think of how they were murdered, including those in the Russian Church and the many more of wholesale murder of the Russian peoples and children, it is all I can say in closure to all of those murderous lots.
God Rest All their Souls of the IF, the innocent peoples, and children of Russia.
Tatiana+
PS: he above has been modified, as I was approached by an AP Member this afternoon in private mail , that I had not capitalized, the "C" in Christian, and that if it were not very nice to say, then I should have refrained from doing so.
I beg to differ. Silence where people's lives have been taken as savagely as they were in the Russian Revolution, and after, needs to have long term wittness that state from our own tongue, our feelings and a cry of alarm that any peoples should never bear such beastial and savage address of such monstrous acts of mass murder.
Silence does nothing, but encourage to date henious actions as were offered to the Russian peoples.The Jewish peoples of the Holocaust did not stay silence. In fact all nations who have suffered extremes of loss of life, have never stayed silent. It is up to us as a peoples of all nations to speak up, speak out against tyrrany of any type, and certainly mass murders. No matter what religion, etc., nobody has the right to kill people, period !
If the noose did not get the murderers in life, then from those whose direct legacy of countless lives taken, can not speak out, and state our disdain, then who better can state our feelings ?
Might I remind you, that in Dafour, it continues, and silence to a degree remains, without much adeau of direct intervention. I don't think they are keeping silent , and we should not be as well.
Note : Over 90 years the Armenian nation has suffered in silence, and still there has been no global concern to bring those murders of innocent lives to judgement of 3/4 of a nation decimated.
How long do you think a person, a peoples, or a nation should stay in silence before it is termed OK to speak up, or ever speak out against violence, tyrrany, mass murder

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Now it's my 3 kopeks !!!!
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Belochka's Post: I believe that this discussion should be presented in a separate thread because it goes beyond the physical process of execution, and touches on several issues that include possible remorse or otherwise of the perpetrators and whether the family members should be held to account for the criminal act committed by the family member.
Perhaps Tania should initiate this new line of enquiry?
Margarita
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I hope many will respond and disscuss this thread in detail !