28.12.2023, Moscow.
The US didn’t wish to include the Russians on the captive nations list because it always believed that “the Russians, not Communism, made them all captive,”, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on December 14 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
When national groups, be it Tajik, Armenian, or any other, revolted against the Russian empire in order to create their own states, which later terrified themselves, there was certain justification, the political scientist noted.
Sergey Kurginyan added that what such national groups did was to some extent justified by the Captive Nations declaration. However, what the Russian dissidents did had no justification in the context of this law.
On July 17, 1959, on the initiative of President D. Eisenhower the US Congress adopted the Captive Nations Law, and it established an annual Captive Nations Week. This document called the Soviet Union the enslaver of the nations living on its territory as well as in Europe and Asia. The Declaration also noted that the captive nations deserved their own states.
The political scientist also stressed that the Russian people were not among the captive nations.
“But when it came to the Russians, there was no justification at all! Because the Russian anti-Soviet entities, which were under total control of the CIA, repeatedly addressed the presidents of the United States asking them to include the Russian people on the list of the nations enslaved by Communism. Every time the answer was no, because ‘in fact it is not Communism but the Russians made them all captive.’ We say Communism meaning the Russians,” the analyst noted.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
