Igor Kuznetsov, 2012. |
Members of this group advocated
self-determination of the peoples and regions of Russia, against their colonial
exploitation by the Kremlin. As the leader of this group was mentioned Daria
Polyudova, initiator of the "March for the federalization of Kuban
region", who was sentenced to six years in prison by the Moscow military
court in 2021 (this was her second sentence). https://memohrc.org/.../defe.../polyudova-darya-vladimirovna
And now, after a year and almost nine months in
pre-trial detention, the FSB investigators decided to send Igor Kuznetsov for
forensic psychiatric examination at the Serbsky Institute. Yes, the same
Serbsky Institute that “diagnosed” Soviet dissidents Pyotr Grigorenko, Valeria
Novodvorskaya, and many others.
2014. |
In April 2021, Igor Kuznetsov posted on YouTube an appeal to Russians: "Putin is preparing an attack on Ukraine. But it is not Putin, it is our fascist Russia that is preparing a war, in which we can all burn... Like Hitler in his time, Putler is leading the world to World War 3. All of us Russians are to blame for this, including me. Is this going to work as usual? Yes, it did in the spring of 2014, and maybe it will in the spring of 2021, and then, and then... And it would reinforce the Russian “happy-go-lucky attitude” But this Russian attitude would help the Nuclear Armageddon come in 2036 or 2042, and whoever survives will be the envy of the dead."
For the Left Resistance group, Igor Kuznetsov
drafted a manifesto in which he wrote: "The genocide of the peoples of the
Caucasus, launched in the 19th century by Tsarism, was continued by Stalin.
Stalin's regime is being revived by Putin. Thus, we are fighting not just
Russian imperialism, but the serfdom and obscurantism of
Tsarist-Stalinist-Putin imperialism. Moreover, the Putin regime's aggression
against Ukraine with the annexation of Crimea, against Syria with the bombing
of civilians, with adventures in Africa and Latin America after 2014 leads to
increased national oppression against non-Russian peoples of the Russian
Federation, to a policy of assimilation of non-Russian peoples and destruction
of non-Russian languages in Russia. Russians have been turned by
tsarist-Stalinist-Putin imperialism into the empire's main tool, and the
culture of the Russian people has been perverted by imperialism and chauvinism.
Without destroying tsarist-Stalinist-Putinist imperialism and
Stalinist-Putinist fascism, the Russian national revival and the revival of all
peoples of the Russian Federation is impossible. This international struggle
against Russian imperialism and fascism - has become the common national task
of all peoples of Russia."