The 1937th year continues for us

2018 January 03 (Wednesday)  14:21:47

Kamal Ali

Citizen of the city of Baku, Aza Rahmanova, built at her own expense a small family pantheon in the cemetery for relatives and all Azerbaijanis, victims of Soviet political repressions. In the family of the Rahmanovs, 17 people fell under the communist press.

There is no monument to the victims of communism in Azerbaijan. Moreover, since the collapse of the USSR, the leaders of the Republic of Azerbaijan have refused to disclose the archives of the secret services, except for isolated cases (the name of the informant Elchin Behbudov is disclosed.) The line of concealing state crimes committed by the NKVD-KGB continues to this day.

"All my life I thought that my family - father, uncle, - innocently repressed, destroyed by the regime, who served unselfishly, have no resting place." When I had this opportunity, I built a memorial to the repressed relatives in the Baku cemetery for all Azerbaijanis who died in the terrible years of repression," wrote A. rahmanova speaking about the tragedy of the family.

The executive director of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan, Eldar Zeynalov, in his conversation with Turan was surprised by the principal unwillingness of the country's leadership to disclose the criminal cases of the repressed, despite the fact that more than 80 years have passed since Stalin's executions. "Archives do not open because they are afraid of disclosing the names and nationalities of secret informers, members of extrajudicial" triples "and other state structures that sentenced innocent people," Zeynalov suggested.

In 2013, the Ministry of National Security denied A.Rahmanova in familiarization with the father's 80-year-old deed (1937). She was said that it was done to protect the rights of persons who testified in the case - that is, scammers and perjurers. Refusing, they referred to the legislation, so it was not the initiative of the former leadership of the MNS.

The same answer was given to another Azerbaijani who applied to the MNS in September 2017. "The case" concerned an Azerbaijani German arrested after the murder of Kirov in December 1934 and convicted in 1935. Whose interests can affect his business is unclear. However, the request of the great-grandson the German was declined. The state almost a century later defends the rights of slanderers, violating the rights of those slandered, while both are already dead," Zeynalov said.

In Azerbaijan they repeat the practice of Russia. In January 2016, the commission of the Russian Federation for the protection of state secrets refused to grant a petition to declassify information about the work of the secret services for the period from 1917 to 1991. The commission decided that information on the methods of the NKVD-KGB's work remains relevant, and their dissemination may damage the national security of the Russian Federation, "the petition to one of the authors of the petition to the lawyer Ivan Pavlov says in a reply to the commission.

In Ukraine, the process of disclosing the archives of the special services began under President V.Yushchenko. Under President Viktor Yanukovych, the process was stopped. But President Viktor Poroshenko, who replaced Yanukovych, did not disclose the archives.

The most daring legislation in this field was adopted in the Czech Republic, which declassified the archives of secret services.

There are no exact figures on the number of repressed persons in Azerbaijan. From the article of Professor Eldar Ismailov:

- On January 31, 1938, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) establishes a new norm of "an additional number of people subjected to repression" in individual republics, regions and regions. This time, in the next three months in Azerbaijan, it was necessary to shoot 2,000, to sentence 1,000 people to long terms of imprisonment.

Ismailov quoted Stalin's order, directly related to the family members of A. Rahmanova. In Stalin's cryptogram addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan dated September 26, 1937, an instruction is given on the deployment of mass repressions in the Nakhchivan ASSR. Authorizing us to arrest the two brothers, Useyn Rahmanov, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Azerbaijani SSR, and Stalin, the first secretary of the Nakhichevan regional committee of the party Hasan Rahmanov, Stalin further writes: "We ask you to cleanse the Nakhichevan republic, contaminated by Hasan Rahmanov, from all evil spirits. Keep in mind that the Nakhichevan Republic is the most dangerous point in the entire Transcaucasus. It is necessary to put a real Bolshevik-tested leadership there ... ".

In total, 275,000 people were to be arrested and convicted in the coming months. The order noted that according to the first category, in other words, 82,700 people should be sentenced to be shot, and 193,000 people - to long terms of imprisonment. The norm for Azerbaijan was established in accordance with the resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) of July 10, 1937.

Keeping in secret all the circumstances of arrests, convictions and incidents in the execution of extrajudicial sentences, Azerbaijan condones the criminals and does not give hope for the termination of such state actions in the future.

Eldar Zeynalov:

"The law has such a provision that" in exceptional cases, in the interests of the state and the people, "they can classify the repressed people's cases after the expiration of the deadline so that they "do not disclose the methods of operative investigation "and" not violate the rights of people who collaborated with bodies". But if you take into account what methods were used then, what kind of false information was given by "agents, and that officially it was condemned both during the time of the USSR and in the period of independence, then keeping secret obviously does not meet the interests of the people and the state, if we are talking about the 1920s and 1930s, who of them lived to the age of 110. All the NKVD agents of that time died, and their children and grandchildren are not responsible for their grandfather's crimes.

Children do not bear responsibility for the guilt of the fathers, but in Azerbaijan the children of repressed cannot find out where they are buried, as well as at whose denunciation their ancestors were shot by the " order of NKVD". The 37th year has not ended for us ...

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