President Putin has just signed into law policies on the acknowledgment of the genocide of the Soviet People, but why and what does this mean?

Somewhat strangely, but in a Western world filled to the brim with Russophobia is not surprising, the millions of Soviet citizens who died during WWII were never considered to be part of a genocide after all these years. It is a known fact that Adolf Hitler wanted to depopulate and then enslave the citizenry of the Soviet Union/Russia, and yet their deaths have been considered just “casualties” and not part of a greater genocide.

“As for the ridiculous hundred million Slavs, we will mold the best of them to the shape that suits us, and we will isolate the rest of them in their own pig-styes; and anyone who talks about cherishing the local inhabitant and civilizing him, goes straight off into a concentration camp!”

-Hitler, May 1942

Why this is the case could be for reasons both simple and straight forward and/or deeply conspiratorial. In the most basic sense, there is a concept within the West that a strong person can never be a victim, we can see this as a core belief within today’s Liberal/Woke way of thinking. If someone has inherent power or an advantage they cannot be considered a victim, and thus the Soviet Union which fought back and defeated the Nazis was definitely strong, and thus for this type of Westerner, inherently not a victim.

On a more conspiratorial side we can see that the results of WWII, and the use of victimization from it, have lead to all sorts of policy and plans being justified into existence and obviously no one in the Western elite is enjoying the fact that now the biggest victim in raw numbers of Nazi Germany is clearly the Soviet Union which passed its legacy down to the modern day Russian Federation.

The question of why the Soviet Union did not declare itself a victim of genocide to the world immediately is up for debate. But we cannot forget that the tragedy of WWII was so great for the Soviet Union that for many years it was dealing with the consequences of them and trying to survive, not philosophising about its legacy. After 1945 the next great Victory Day parade in Moscow only occured in 1965, people in the USSR were busy rebuilding.

Regarding modern Russia we should just say that due to losing the Cold War there would be no way for Russia to enact this policy of declaring itself the victim of a genocide if the Special Military Operation had not begun. Russia needed to free itself from USAID, NGO and other invisible restrictive chains to even start to consider patriotic thought.

Now about the new laws themselves, website RG.RU describes the actual workings of this new legal framework for handling the genocide of the Soviet people:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that defines the forms of perpetuating the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.

It has been established that this may include burial and reburial, conducting search operations, installing commemorative signs, publishing materials about mass crimes against peaceful Soviet citizens and the number of victims of genocide in the media, creating works of art, museums and individual exhibitions, including in educational organizations.

The Law also regulates the burial and reburial of the remains of genocide victims, ensuring their safety and restoration, if necessary. A special procedure is provided for coordinating and conducting search operations for the remains of peaceful Soviet citizens who died as a result of the genocide.

The national operator for perpetuating the memory of the victims of the genocide, which will be a non-profit organization selected by the Government of the Russian Federation, will begin work.

This is a major shift in the legacy of WWII and our interpretation of it. This new policy will have long term effects. Today’s Russian people are grateful for finally getting this proper and upright interpretation of their national history.