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Red Army Crimes referas to violations of the international law of war by the Soviet Union's Red Army from 1917-1991. What follows is a list of aggressions by the U.S.S.R. against different countries even including agression against the people of Soviet Union.

  • Red Army crimes in Armenia
  • Red Army crimes in Azerbaijan
  • Red Army crimes in Belorus
  • Red Army crimes in Germany
  • Red Army crimes in Moldova
  • Red Army crimes in Poland
  • Red Army crimes in Russia

(Red army crimes in Asia are needed)

The reasons, periods, classification, conclusions[]

The reasons of aggression[]

The crimes are a logical consequancies of some kind of aggression, so

when studying them and their reasons it is necessary to understand

the roots of aggression (social aggression). Of course, not only

philosophically, the war is a crime at a global level, but during the

war period there was a large amount of single acts of different kind of aggression was

committed, and aggression against civil citizens or P.O.W. is supposed

to be the war crime.

Bolshevik leader Lenin developed it's aggressive ideology of class

war and proletar dictatorship seaking the communism based on false

teaching of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels about effectivness of

centralised nonmarket economy. This theory was based on the

nationalisation of all citizens' property creating centralised

"socialfeudal" country or even centralised union. Immediately after the

October Revolution, a totalitaristic regime was proclaimed and

nationalisation in Russia started. The second World War was still going on

at this time and this together with Bolshevik dictatorship and nationalisation coused

the Civil war in Russia and lots of people and countries suffered -

total of victims is approximately 15 million, mainly Russians and

Ukrainians. The Red Army was created by Leon Trocky and it was the

main weapon of Bolshevik(Communist) party. Soon confrontation of

different ideological and economic systems started, which coused

international world wide conflicts and strong social aggression.

The last aggression against soviet countries people was committed

trying to rescue Soviet Union from collapse.


The periods of aggression[]

Different historical periods could be characterised by not equal

intensivity of war and military crimes. During those historical

periods not only the famous victories of Red Army were reached, but

lots of atrocities and crimes were committed by this army too.


  • Russia civil war period - 1917 - 1922

There was a war against Ukraina partisans and Asia republic partisans

- "basmachy" fughting for freedom and religion.

  • Second world war period 1939 - 1945

Lots of international conflicts

  • Cold war and detante period 1946 - 1988

There was aggression against partisan fighting for freedom in Baltic

states - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia starting from 1944 and ending

by 1952, some cruel attaccks against worker demonstrations

(Karaganda).

  • Period of Soviet Union collapse 1988- 1990

There was military aggression against Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania,

Latvia and Moscow people

coordinated by Soviet comunist party, secret police KGB,

Ministry of defence and it's intelligence - GRU.


The consequencies of aggression and war crime[]

The total numner of comunism victims was approximately 100 million and a large part of this is the result of aggressive confrontating politics of comunist party realised by Red Army,

which supported the other repressive structures of Soviet union.

Because of different systems confrontation there were started two

world wars and lots of the other conflicts were rose. The world lost

horrible amount of lives and economies of different countries was

destroyed.


References[]

  • 1. A History of the Modern World (Hardcover) by R. R. Palmer (Author), Joel Colton (Author), Lloyd Kramer (Author)
  • 2. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Hardcover) by Stéphane Courtois (Author), Nicolas Werth (Author), Jean-Louis Panné (Author), Andrzej Paczkowski (Author), Karel Bartosek (Author), Jean-Louis Margolin (Author), Mark Kramer (Editor), Jonathan Murphy (Translator), Stephane Courtois (Author), Jean-Louis Panne (Author)

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