It was reported that Ukraine has formally indicted one Boris Steckler – a jewish former officer in Stalin’s NKVD – (1) for the 1952 murder of Nil Khasevych and two others. (2)
Khasevych was part of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA). Who were fighting for freedom against Stalin’s oppression of the Ukrainian people that was brought to the world’s attention by the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 and which continued almost without a break until the dictator’s death in 1953.
Steckler – who as recently as 2013 has admitted to being in charge of the search and destroy operation against Khasevych – (3) is maintaining a typically legalistic defence. In so far as he claims that he ‘didn’t kill Khasevych and the other men’ but rather ‘just lead the operation’ and that they ‘killed themselves with a grenade’. (4)
This is quite frankly a weak defence: Steckler knows that he caused the deaths of Khasevych as it was precisely his job to hunt down and kill them the behest of Joseph Stalin. It matters little if he pulled the trigger himself, whether one of his mendid so or they committed suicide to prevent their being captured and tortured by the notorious brutal NKVD interrogators.
The fact remains that Steckler is as guilty as sin and not only that deserves to be taken to the place where he executed Khasevych and be executed in turn but to have his family watch and pay for the bullet that sends him to hell.
References
(1) http://forward.com/fast-forward/370493/94-year-old-ex-soviet-officer-faces-ukraine-probe-for-1952-killing/
(2) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/03/ukraine-investigates-soviet-veteran-death-red-army-boris-steckler
(3) http://iremember.ru/memoirs/nkvd-i-smersh/steklyar-boris-efimovich/
(4) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/03/ukraine-investigates-soviet-veteran-death-red-army-boris-steckler