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The trial of the winners
International "Memorial"* liquidated. The prosecutor said the "traitors of the Motherland"
Their universities
Prosecutor General of the RSFSR Andrey Vyshinsky, 1936
Speech in the process in the "case of the Trotsky-Zinovievsky Terrorist Center".
“This process, the“ heroes ”of which they connected their fate with the Nazis, with agents of police guards, the“ heroes ”of which lost all disassemble in the means and reached the Hercules of two -handed and deceit, erected treachery and betrayal to the system, to the law of their struggle against the Soviet state, this process revealed to the end and once again proved how great and immaculate our enemies and hatred of our enemies to the Great the work of socialism; This process showed how <...> a despicable, insignificant bunch of adventurers tried to trample the best fragrant flowers in our socialist garden with dirty legs. ”
From the court over "Memorial"
Prosecutor Alexei Zhafyarov, 2021.
It is a speech in the process of the liquidation of the "memorial."
The Memorial, speculating on the topic of political repressions of the 20th century, creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state, lies and rehabilitates Nazi criminals and traitors of the homeland, on whose hands the blood of Soviet citizens. Why are we, descendants of the winners, are forced to observe attempts to rehabilitation of the traitors of the Motherland and Nazi accomplices?! Probably because someone pays for this. And this genuine cause of the fierce rejection with which the Memorial is rejected from the status of a “foreign agent” and does not want to disclose sources of financing. ”
Three short meetings took the liquidation of the Memorial International Educational Society from the Supreme Court of Russia. The first two, on which the memorials showed all their authorized documentation, regalia, letters and awards published by them with notes and markings on the status of the “foreign Agent”, with the help of the best lawyers, explained the obvious to the court (even though they did not recognize the law on “foreign agents”, but they executed it), and the court itself attached the signatures of the famous, including Mikhail Gorbachev, and unknown people and unknown people citizens for the "memorial" - these first meetings inspired weak, but hope: they would not dare to eliminate. On the morning of December 28, almost immediately personally, I became clear to me:
They laugh, and how.
The confidence that the meanness will be done was inspired by a man of about 50. With a small gray beard, glasses and in a tie tightly tightening his neck. A blue uniform was very walking a man. At the previous meeting, studying the award handed over to him - the statuette of the Memorial, he accidentally broke it. This is a representative of the Prosecutor General Aleksey Zhafyarov.
I don’t know on which floors of which buildings to Alexei Gayyarovich wrote his speech, where and with whom they coordinated, or he himself was its author, but according to the tonality, the first lines became clear: the international “memorial” will be liquidated today.
Zhafyarov was the first. I read a piece of paper. Not so loudly, but with expression, with solemn notes, a tear in the right places. Smelled ...
Thesis.
Alexey Zhafyarov
The representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office at the process of liquidation of the Memorial
The international "memorial" was created as an organization for perpetuating memory, and now ... Now, instead of memory of the glorious achievements, "Memorial" makes you repent for the Soviet past.
The Memorial almost completely focused on distorting historical memory - first of all, about the Great Patriotic War.
Specifying on the topic of political repression, the international “memorial” creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state.
The Memorial implements educational projects ... 44 thousand Russian schoolchildren went through these projects. What benefits for schoolchildren can be discussed if one of the members of the Memorial claims that he does not love his homeland and that patriotism is obscurantism ( there were no links. - Ed. ).
What benefits for children of the school competition ( apparently, this is the Memorial, for more than 20 years, the competition for high school students “Man in the History of Russia - the twentieth century”. - Ed. ) Can we say if the “memorial” lies Nazi criminals? Do we need such history lessons?!
The Memorial complains that instead of the state, it is doing work on the rehabilitation of victims of repression. No, the prosecutor's office does this work! Since 1991, only the General Prosecutor's Office rehabilitated 500,000 people, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 3 million. Over the past two years, the International Memorial has never turned to us for rehabilitation.
The lawyer of the Memorial Maria Aismont will later ask Mr. Zhafyarova in her speech: “You previously said that the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were rehabilitated by millions of people. But why had to be rehabilitated? On behalf of which state were these people repressed? " The prosecutor will not answer her .
- Why are we, descendants of the winners, are forced to observe attempts to rehabilitation of the traitors of the Motherland and Nazi accomplices?! Probably because someone pays for this. And this genuine reason for the fierce rejection with which the “memorial” opens from the status of a “foreign agent” and does not want to mention in every publication who was paid to the denial of our history.
The prosecutor Zhafyarov asked the claim to satisfy. It took him five minutes to announce the paper.
And it seems that these five minutes have become an official triumph. The path up the career ladder, if you trace, is very logical with Alexei Gayyarovich: a few years ago he was the deputy head of the Department of Religious and Public Associations of the Ministry of Justice and, as human rights activists recall, stood at the origins of the dragon laws directed against NGOs. Today, Alexei Gayyarovich, already being the deputy head of the Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, offers to attract the organizers of inconsistent protests to administrative liability in absentia, to fine social networks for calls to rallies (February this year) and requires the liquidation of the FBK ***, and the headquarters of Navalny *** (June 2021). And not a single demand of Mr. Zhafyarov remained unsatisfied.
... December 28 in the Supreme Court for the liquidation of the "memorial" Zhafyarov was supported by colleagues- the ladies- prosecutors . In three minutes, women once again informed the court that the “memorial” allegedly grossly violating the constitution and “interprets the law in its favor”. And that there is no dialogue with the society that the Memorial speaks about, “What dialogue can we talk about if all the events end in bargaining property and vandalism?!”
That is, when the educational events of the Memorial are tearing out a different pro -government gopot, and the police simply blocks the doors of the organization of the organization of handcuffs and releases without drawing up the protocols that arranged a pogrom of citizens, this is the fault of the Memorial.
Representatives of the Ministry of Justice and Roskomnadzor were concise: “I will speak a little here ...” said the official’s official. The essence: the process “convincingly proved the repeated violation by the“ memorial ”of the Law on“ Ino -Agents ”. And the defendant continues to violate the law. Deliberately. "
“The law cannot be interpreted in such a way as to post the marking only on the main page of the site - this is already from the mouth of the employee of Roskomnadzor . “I support the lawsuit.”
Judge Alla Nazarova led the whole process in a light and relaxed manner. She did not allow herself to break into the participants, even the voice did not increase. And sometimes there was a feeling that some kind of private dispute in a country cooperative was being considered.
It is as if we are not talking about the liquidation of the most famous educational organization created by Academician Sakharov, but about garage boxing.
Mrs. Nazarova, if she corrected the participants, then softly, with a smile on her face, but not without malice. For example, she thought that she had pricked lawyer Maria Aismont, reminding her that until recently she was a journalist.
Aismont voiced the conclusions of independent polls regarding the situation around the international “memorial”, as Judge Nazarov interrupted it:
“You look at me, please.” And then you look at the public all the time. If you want to speak to the public, then you need to go to another place. You are not acting now as a journalist, but as a lawyer.
Maria Aismont:
“Your honor, thank you very much for such knowledge of my personal biography.”
Judge Nazarova (smiling):
- Please!
Henry Reznik’s performance was not subjected to female injections. He was assembled, crucial and a couple:
Henry Reznik
Lawyer, on the process - in the team of defenders of "Memorial"
I would like to place accents. The statement of claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office completely falls under the wording of part 7 of Article 45 of the Code of Administrative proceedings - “unfair statement of an unjusting claim”. When I encounter such an unscrupulous statement from representatives of the authorities, clothed with great powers, I will not hide - I find myself in the power of an ugly feeling. I think: “Well, they know that they are going to court with an illegal requirement!”
What do we read in the lawsuit? "Harm for children." Is there any frail evidence? Of course not.
The lawsuit also says: "The liquidation of the" memorial "is aimed at protecting the interests of other persons." I wonder what kind of faces they stood before the eyes of the prosecutors when they signed this statement. It is definitely not those who come to the “Return of Names” campaign to Lubyanka ...
The great Russian poet Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, when the gates of the door of the Gulag opened, said that now the country would be divided into two camps: those who were planted, and on those who planted. But those who were planted, less - they did not survive. It seems to me that today these two half of the people came together in this hall.
The prosecutors here said that the international "memorial" "distorts history and represents the USSR as a terrorist organization." But this is not true! Society "Memorial" contributes to the health of the nation.
And I would like to hear a link from the prosecutors at least one commercial organization or public association, which would positively appreciate the law on “foreign agents”. In my opinion, negative criticism sounded from everyone, even from the president.
Lawyer Grigory Weipan, representing the Memorial, added:
Grigory Weipan
Lawyer, defender of "Memorial"
“We heard a lot in this process as the“ memorial ”violates the“ rights of children ”. But the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has already stated that the law on “foreign agents” contradicts the Convention on the rights of the child. And the UN committee urged this law to cancel. ”
... Judge Nazarova was 40 minutes in the deliberation room. Prosecutors were sitting in place almost all this time. The memorials Elena Zhemkova, Jan Rachinsky walked around the hall, leaving the hall, entered again, approached the lawyers, asked something ... It seems that all memorials had no emotions, nor nerves, nor the very initial hope ...
On the street near the court, especially active citizens from among those who came to support the “memorial” were already packed.
Autosak - clean, modern - was on duty on Povarskaya Street from 9.30 in the morning.
The priest Alexei Uminsky, whom Judge Nazarova from the very first meeting did not allow the process as a witness (together with Vladimir Lukin and other figures of science, law and society), published a line on his Facebook:
“These are those who shouted:“ Warrava
Let us go for the holiday ", those
That ordered Socrates to poison
Drink in prison dense crowds.
They would have the same pour a drink
In their innocently slander mouth,
These cute torture lovers,
Experts in the production of orphans. "
“In the name of the Russian Federation ... - entering the hall, the judge said. - The resolving part. Having examined the administrative case on the statement of claim of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, guided by the Code of Administrative proceedings, the court decided to satisfy and liquidate the Memorial human rights company and its regional branches, ”the judge gave one month to appeal the Memorial.
Of course, they will appeal. In the European Court, including.
This is how the international "memorial" was liquidated.
In December 2021. On the fourth anniversary of the departure of his creator - historian, researcher of repression, student of Yuri Lotman and eternal romance - Arseny of Roginsky. It is good that he did not see everything that was happening in the Supreme Court.
But we saw. And we live with it.
On December 29, the Moscow City Court must put an end to the similar lawsuit of the metropolitan prosecutor's office for the Memorial human rights society.