Dmitry Gudkov on the selection of the new head of Interpol

The Russian rank in Interpol, of course, will turn a blind eye to absurd Russian requests even more actively.

A lot is being written about the possible choice of the head of Interpol, Major General Prokopchuk, and often without much understanding of the topic. It is important to understand three things.

First: Interpol is a bureaucratic international organization, one of the main functions of which is to satisfy the requests of various countries included in it, that is, to help in the search for certain individuals. And she usually does not bother herself to delve into what kind of warrants there are for politics, and which ones are for business. At the same time, the Russian rank in Interpol, of course, will turn a blind eye to the absurd Russian requests even more actively - that's why the Prosecutor General's Office today screamed that Browder poisoned Magnitsky.

rightly points out Second: as Roman Popkov , not only countries that are civilized in the European sense, but also those where people are executed in the most sophisticated ways and where dictators rule, from Maduro to Erdogan, vote in Interpol. So the Russian candidate has a fair chance.

Third: (I quote "Frontiers" ) "From 1940 to 1942, Interpol was headed by Hitler's protege, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo and one of the initiators of the" final solution to the Jewish question ". Now it will be headed by Putin's protege. There was practically no international police cooperation in those years, but for some reason the other participating countries did not dare to remove the SS man from his post or disband the organization. This was taken care of by two British intelligence agents who killed Heydrich in Prague in June 1942. However, in 1943, another SS general, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Himmler's successor and chief curator of the Nazi concentration camps, took up the same position. He remained at his post until the end of the war, and in 1946 he was hanged by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

So it's time to be disappointed in Interpol, as well as in the UN and other international organizations. Only we ourselves can pull ourselves out of the current swamp by the hair.

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