War in Ukraine: how Russia will have to pay for heinous crimes/Getty Images
< strong _ngcontent-sc88="">We are dealing with war crimes on an industrial scale, in fact genocide. And the recognition of this fact at the state level will open up very serious opportunities for the confiscation of Russian assets, both public and private.
The traditional Western right to protect property in today's realities may recede into the background. The issue of reparations and, accordingly, the confiscation of those Russian assets that are currently frozen is of great importance.
But the Russian opposition – those who call themselves the Russian opposition – has not yet given an intelligible answer on this issue.
In my opinion, there can be no discussion here. Russia will have to pay the entire amount of damage, which will be appointed according to the international community as compensation for the heinous crimes that are happening on Ukrainian soil today.
In the established world, such procedures take a long time, but the Nuremberg Tribunal did not take long. Unfortunately, there were no such tribunals in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the crimes of communism, which far exceed both the time period and the scale of the crimes of the Nazis, have so far remained unstigmatized in history.
The crimes of the Putin regime
Now we are approaching the the crimes that were committed by the communists, the KGB and their current Putin reincarnation should be recorded both in history and in criminal law. This will make it possible to resolve issues, including the confiscation of the frozen assets of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine.
Achieving this is our historical duty. It is not only a matter of restoring justice to the Ukrainian people, who are fighting and dying today. This is a question of the future of Russia.
Russia cannot have a future if a fundamental assessment is not given to what happened, if war criminals are not extradited and Russia does not finally cease to be an empire that brings death and destruction to its neighbors.
