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
- Socialism building in Soviet Union period 1923 - 1939
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)