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OLYMPIAD 2012: SHAME OF MOSCOW 1980 AND BERLIN 1936 SHOULD NOT REPEAT, OLYMPIC GAMES SHOULD NOT PASS IN THE CAPITAL OF BELLIGERENT STATE WITH MASS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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In connection with the visit to Moscow of the evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee which will take the decision on the host city for the Summer Olympic Games 2012, the secretary of the movement "Russian Radicals" Nikolaj Khramov has made the following statement:
"Not we, Radicals, but the president Putin was the first to compare the situation of 1980 with today's one: "We know in what international, political conditions those Games in Moscow were carried out. Thank God, these times have passed - the world has changed, Russia itself has changed". In contrast to him, we believe that today, as well as 25 years ago when Soviet Union waged an aggressive war in Afghanistan, Moscow is not the right place for the Olympic Games. To take the decision on realization of the Olympiad in the capital of the state which for ten years already with a small interruption has been in the condition of a dirty colonial war during which almost each fifth resident of Chechnya has been killed, and hundreds of thousands of people till now are refugees, of the state practising in its own territory arbitrary executions, tortures, kidnappings and other mass and gross violations of human rights - to take such decision would signify not only to break formally the rules of the Olympic movement according to which the Games can not be carried out in the state which wages a war, but also to break cynically elementary norms of decency, giving one more carte blanche to the Kremlin dictator to continue his policy of war, genocide and violation of human rights, not to mention the elementary problem of safety in the city whose residents live constantly waiting for a new Nord-Ost, Tushino or Riga. >From this point of view, the realization of the Olympiad in Moscow doesn't differ very much from the shame of the Berlin Olympiad 1936 or Moscow 1980. And from the purely sporting point of view it would be insulting to subject the Olympic Games to the risk of one more international moral boycott similar to the previous attempt of realization of the Olympiad in Moscow 25 years ago. It would be an inexcusable naivety to count on the ability of the Kremlin to finish with the problem of the war in Chechnya until the moment of realization of the Olympiad and to take the decision proceeding from this, taking into account Putin's determination to continue infinite war, rejecting even the idea about the possibility of a fair political settlement of the conflict which has been shown by the assassination of Maskhadov".
"Not we, Radicals, but the president Putin was the first to compare the situation of 1980 with today's one: "We know in what international, political conditions those Games in Moscow were carried out. Thank God, these times have passed - the world has changed, Russia itself has changed". In contrast to him, we believe that today, as well as 25 years ago when Soviet Union waged an aggressive war in Afghanistan, Moscow is not the right place for the Olympic Games. To take the decision on realization of the Olympiad in the capital of the state which for ten years already with a small interruption has been in the condition of a dirty colonial war during which almost each fifth resident of Chechnya has been killed, and hundreds of thousands of people till now are refugees, of the state practising in its own territory arbitrary executions, tortures, kidnappings and other mass and gross violations of human rights - to take such decision would signify not only to break formally the rules of the Olympic movement according to which the Games can not be carried out in the state which wages a war, but also to break cynically elementary norms of decency, giving one more carte blanche to the Kremlin dictator to continue his policy of war, genocide and violation of human rights, not to mention the elementary problem of safety in the city whose residents live constantly waiting for a new Nord-Ost, Tushino or Riga. >From this point of view, the realization of the Olympiad in Moscow doesn't differ very much from the shame of the Berlin Olympiad 1936 or Moscow 1980. And from the purely sporting point of view it would be insulting to subject the Olympic Games to the risk of one more international moral boycott similar to the previous attempt of realization of the Olympiad in Moscow 25 years ago. It would be an inexcusable naivety to count on the ability of the Kremlin to finish with the problem of the war in Chechnya until the moment of realization of the Olympiad and to take the decision proceeding from this, taking into account Putin's determination to continue infinite war, rejecting even the idea about the possibility of a fair political settlement of the conflict which has been shown by the assassination of Maskhadov".
