Kedmi spoke out about attempts at violence over the history of Russia and calls for "repent"
The program “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” raised the topic of the requirements for repentance “for the past” by foreign politicians, journalists or public figures addressed to Russia and Russians. A few days ago, with a proposal to Russia to “admit as a mistake”, the Soviet Union waged a war with Japan and defeated it, an article appeared in a Japanese newspaper. The journalist said that if Russia “admits a mistake” and recognizes “the internment of Japanese prisoners as a state crime”, then relations between Tokyo and Moscow will allegedly become better.
On the air of Vladimir Solovyov, Yakov Kedmi commented on the requests and demands for repentance to Russia. Kedmi noted that the terms “repentance” and “atonement” themselves refer to religion. But in religion, as the Israeli expert recalled, there is a well-known norm according to which the son is not responsible for the father.
Yakov Kedmi:
According to an Israeli expert, there is no point in asking for forgiveness from the state on behalf of the state for the past.
Kedmi:
Kedmi noted that rape history Russia is already becoming a kind of tradition. Individuals who call themselves historians are trying to fit history into today's situation.
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On the air of Vladimir Solovyov, Yakov Kedmi commented on the requests and demands for repentance to Russia. Kedmi noted that the terms “repentance” and “atonement” themselves refer to religion. But in religion, as the Israeli expert recalled, there is a well-known norm according to which the son is not responsible for the father.
Yakov Kedmi:
So it is with the nations. I don’t understand at all when someone comes and asks the other people for forgiveness for something. When Adenauer apologized for the Warsaw Ghetto. Why did he ask who he is? Did he participate in this? No. This is neither cold nor hot.
According to an Israeli expert, there is no point in asking for forgiveness from the state on behalf of the state for the past.
Kedmi:
It is necessary to judge by those standards, by those times that were. It is impossible to judge Genghis Khan by today's concepts.
Kedmi noted that rape history Russia is already becoming a kind of tradition. Individuals who call themselves historians are trying to fit history into today's situation.
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