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Kimmo Huosionmaa
The problematic execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, and how it influences attitudes about the execution of Muammar Qaddafi and other dictators is very interesting. There are many people, who claim that the killing of those persons was illegal because they were the heads of the state, and that would give that kind of person right to flee them countries when the people get enough their methods to lead the country. There were only the leaders of the state, whose rights were concerning the people, and their human rights were so important thing, that the press was shocking about their fate.
The problem of the murderers is, that their victims don't give votes
There is the same kind of attitudes with the case of the Tsar family. Only the family members of the leader of the Russian empire are remembered and we must remember, that there were many more 17 years old girls in Russia than Anastasia Romanova, who was killed in the civil war. And many more 15 years old youngsters who were slaughtered in the concentration camps and shared the fate of Anne Frank. In the case of Ceausescu, there was nobody, who remember the victims of that man, but there were people, who said that Ceaucescu's human rights were violated because of this trial.
The fates of the dictators are sometimes very interesting, like Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who lived in France as the political refugee after his family has been kicked off the power in Haiti, and this is very interesting part of international politics. Only thing, what concerns the people is the fate of the dictators, who wants the political safe places after they were ordered extortions and killings in their country, and when those persons were in the power, nobody care, what they did to their own victims.
There are people who have very big necessity to support everybody, who have superiority position. Persons who have this need would ever see anything wrong in the actions of the dictators because they are the head of the state. When I saw once on the writing of authorities, there was the form of the worlds, that the ADHD-children have problems with the people, who have the official authority and the people, who think that they are the authority.
The last one was a very interesting form because there were claiming, that those people should follow the orders from people, who just think that they are authorities. This means that everybody, like other child or boy from the neighbor, should give the orders to those persons if they are just thinking, that they have jurisdiction about that, or they just think that they have right to give orders to another people. The problem with the power is, that it would make people evil.
One of the reasons, why Joseph Stalin was able to make the crimes, what he made, was that the world left that man alone. The demonization of socialism caused, that the Soviet Union were isolated, and the leaders of that country dare to make, what they wanted because nobody even cares, what happened in the land of "red twilight". Here we must remember, that in the eyes of international law Joseph Stalin was not made any crimes, because in police actions the international law says, that they are internal affairs of some nation. And the international law is, that if some violations are made in the territory of some country, is that country's business to get those violators in the court of law. The attitude was that Stalin's place was in the Soviet Union, and nobody cares, what happened in there. The same thing kept Ceaucescu in the power of Romania.
That small country was the member of the Warsaw pack, and it was in the shadow of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union were not the only state, what kept political prisoners, but that country had the prime role in the policy of the United States, what kept Soviets as their main enemy. The attitude in Washington was that the Soviet Union was the only nation in the Eastern Block. Other governments of that side claimed, that Moscow forced them to make political arrests, what was not actually true. The Soviet Union was the thing, what was used for making fear in the mind of the people.
But the police forces were under national command. And there was the thing, that in the law books were texts, that every action in the parliament should follow the socialistic order or code. Even today are some historians arguing, that was the DDR, Hungarian and Czechoslovakian governments forced to ask their allies and the Soviet troops to stop the democratization movement, and in Hungary the Government claimed, that the Soviet troops were used force against people, who came to barricades.
And the Soviet Commanders claimed that the force was used by AVO, what means Hungarian secret police-troops, and the Soviets were only supporting the legal government. In the real world, the reason for using force could be, that some members of AVO The Hungarian secret police shot Soviet Troops because of provocation. Or that action could make by somebody, who didn't think about consequences. Or maybe those firearms were used against people because somebody claimed, that the force was used against the Soviet embassy. That kind of disinformation would justify the military actions against the demonstrators.
One of the reasons, why those information-operations are made, is that its mission is to make the shooting easier for young soldiers, who must go home after that kind of actions. So they must have the story, what justifies the use of force in the eyes of their families and other people, who they meet before they would go to the cadet- or secret police's school. And after that were much talking, that was the demonstrators really carry the guns, but those things lost in history.
The people like Ceausescu were kept the power in Eastern Europe until the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Soviet government could not support their allies by military force. But the improving telecommunications allowed people see, what was going on in those countries at 1989-1991, and that gave the breaks for the actions of the Soviet troops. If those demonstrations were not followed by the western media, the results could be different, because if the military and police leaders would be allowed to act without publicity, they would dare to give orders to shoot the demonstrators.
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