The resurrection of murders

60 years ago, in Moscow, the investigation was in full swing in the case of vile killer doctors who killed outstanding leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet state of comrades Zhdanov and Shcherbakov and prepared for new crimes. The Soviet people of that time were not surprised by such accusations: they were already used to the fact that even members of the Politburo and Marshals could be killers, and that some doctors can encroach on the lives of the Politburo themselves, it was generally in the order of things.

And yet this was the last such consequence, which did not turn into a indicative process. With the death of Stalin, the madness of the Soviet system, of course, has not gone anywhere, but fictional accusations of murders to achieve political goals or just for the pleasure of the leader - it has disappeared. And when, in the 70s and 80s of the last century, the transcript of Stalin processes or Vyshinsky’s speech came across me, all this-despite the dissidents sent to the camps, sent Sakharov and other Brezhnev’s arts-it seemed absolutely absolutely wild. Or, as the fiery patriots of the most advanced system in the world would say, bends. Or, as Joseph Vissarionovich himself would say, is a dizziness from success.

But Stalin had not yet had time to die, and Yanukovych was already born. And now the president of the democratic to colic and desperately striving in Europe of Ukraine is experiencing the same dizziness. 60 years after the "case of doctors", the shadow of political processes on the assassination of murder returned again. Yulia Tymoshenko, who was serving a prison term on charges of signing the “wrong” contract with Vladimir Putin, this time is suspected of involvement in the death of the Donetsk businessman and politician Evgeny Shcherban, an uncorgional king of the clan, the political leader of which Viktor Yanukovych himself became the political leader.

It would seem that in these accusations, resurrecting the history of 16 years ago, there is no logic. Yanukovych - especially on the eve of the Ukraine -European Union summit - is by no means necessary to attract attention to the fate of the most famous political prisoner of the continent. But the Ukrainian president has its own logic. He is convinced that the Europeans, terribly scared by the fact that he was about to escape to Putin and will take Ukraine with him, will not again remind him of Tymoshenko. But the European court, which is going to consider the appeal of the defense of the former prime minister, may well demand its release. And in this case, Yanukovych’s invitation to execute is in store. That is, for a life imprisonment, to which the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Prosecutor has already promised to sentenced the opposition.

This should be something unusually exciting: 60 years after the “case of doctors”, to be in the Stalinist Soviet Union-the country of a cruel smug leader, ridiculous terrible accusations, surviving prosecutors, humble judges, vein sadists, inert society, concerned about survival and losing moral remnants in search of money. You begin to feel that Vyshinsky’s speeches, all these cries and modulations are absolute nonsense, the main thing is the atmosphere, viscous, like an endless raw fog over the Kyiv hills. The atmosphere that we did not know, but now we know. You begin to understand why your own grandmothers later were afraid of their own shadow all their lives. This, of course, is absolute journalistic luck to see all this. If only not to live in this vile time.