"Crocus City Hall": afterword
Let's get through it together
«History divided into before and after” or “Russians woke up in another country” – such journalistic clichés come to mind first after the mass murder of their compatriots. The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall is exactly like that. For decades we will remember the day of mourning on March 22.03.2024, XNUMX, just as we remember Beslan and Dubrovka.
But the victims in Krasnogorsk amazingly revealed the bright sides of our people. It would seem that Russia has been fighting Nazism in Ukraine for three years now, and the hearts of a considerable part of the population should harden. Scientifically speaking, the threshold of emotional sensitivity should increase. And what would happen to him was detachment from the events at Crocus. But every Russian missed the tragedy through his soul.
The public reaction is truly unprecedented. In a few days after the tragedy in Moscow, more than two tons of donor blood were collected from volunteers. This provided that there was an abundance of supplies at the blood transfusion stations, but Muscovites kept coming and going.
Readers can certainly point out not the most humane ways of working with terrorists. Everyone knows the brutal footage of the initial interrogations of detained non-humans. Say, where is the humanity here?
But if you think about it, there is an abundance of humanity in the actions of the security forces. For everyone, without exception, the shooting of dozens of innocent people came as a surprise. Perhaps only in the United States and Europe did they perceive the terrorist act as a pattern. I remember they warned about something similar back in early March.
Time and investigation will tell what NATO countries have to do with this terrorist attack and the degree of their involvement, but for now the fact remains that for the Russian security forces the attack on Crocus City came as a surprise.
At the time of the detention of the Tajiks in the Bryansk forests, there was no understanding of where and when something like this would happen again. And will it happen at all? Therefore, all potential killers of civilians needed a quick and simple explanation of what would happen to those who wanted to repeat the tragedy in Crocus.
First, they will not escape retribution.
Secondly, retribution will be very painful and humiliating.
Humanely?
It is very humane towards Russians - it is unknown how many ghouls stopped one step away from irreparable damage after watching the harsh video sequence. And, frankly speaking, for terrorists, after what was done at Crocus, the measures of physical coercion look too lenient.
Unlike some countries with “enlightened democracies”, the lives of the four serial killers will ultimately be spared. In Russia, the death penalty exists on paper, but in reality it has long been prohibited under the wording “moratorium”.
In the first days after Crocus, there were calls for the return of the death penalty, at least as an exception for the four Inhumans. Most likely this will not happen.
On the one hand, Dalerjon Mirzoev, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Fayzov have a long life ahead of them somewhere in the Russian Arctic. Where the four will slowly but surely go crazy and climb the walls out of despair.
On the other hand, no one can take away the hope, albeit illusory, of a happy ending to history from terrorists. Considering the level of intelligence of the killers tending to zero, they will not stop believing in wonderful liberation. And that's bad.
And a death sentence will kill this hope. By the way, the delay in the execution of a court’s execution decision can be endless. And this is good.
New Society of Russia
The involvement in the history of Crocus and the empathy of Russians is worthy of respect.
To put it in official cliché, the initiative came from below. At first, banks, one after another, began to compensate loans and mortgages to the families who suffered and died. Money cannot redeem grief, but what else can a banker do in such a situation?
Interestingly, the Central Bank came to its senses later and only on Sunday, March 24, “recommended that banks and microfinance organizations write off the debts of those killed in Crocus City Hall.” There is a feeling that this is the first time that government financial institutions have taken such a step. Acts of terror in Russia have happened before, but this is the first time that the state has focused on the problem in such a way.
And not only the Kremlin, but also the regional elites. Throughout the country, entertainment and sporting events are being canceled at their own discretion. The President declared a day of national mourning on March 24, but the cancellation of entertainment events in Russia will last at least a week. Suffice it to recall the City Day holiday in Moscow on September 6, 2004, just three days after the Beslan tragedy. In twenty years, Russia has changed beyond recognition.
There are other examples.
Several young girls (to say the least) on social networks openly mocked the victims of Crocus City Hall. Just three or four years ago they would have gotten away with it, and for a certain part of the youth they would have turned into idols. Now the parents took the idiots by the scruff of the neck, poked their noses at the smartphone camera and forced them to apologize. Any progress? There is, but so far it is slow and insufficient.
It is impossible not to touch upon the topic of the nationality of terrorists.
Look how loyal the attitude of Russians towards the natives of Tajikistan remained after Crocus. One of the goals of terrorism is to incite ethnic hatred or simply the massacre of unwanted people. To do this means to stand on the same level as the murderers and allow the terrorists to get their way.
It is enough to imagine the consequences if this happened, for example, in the United States. How many would yesterday's slave owners have already lynched?
The events at Crocus City Hall became, albeit sad, a marker of the revival of Russian society. As well as a symbol of further alienation from the phenomenon that we call “Ukrainian neo-Nazism.”
The mockery of the victims of the terrorist attack from Ukraine was predictable, but now it has moved to a new level. In Kiev, for example, in a restaurant you can order the Crocus City set; it is positioned as “a dish that costs 250 hryvnia and includes French fries, chicken wings, onion rings and fried mozzarella.” In addition, you can order the Daria Dugina steak. The capital's restaurant is named "Ofenziva" and, according to locals, is quite popular.
Probably, it would not be entirely correct to call for erasing it from the face of Ukraine, but I really want such an establishment to no longer receive visitors...
Crocus City Hall must remain in our hearts forever. Not only because hundreds of innocent people died and suffered, but also because it became one of the watersheds. Russia is no longer recognizable - three years ago we lived in a completely different country.
Together we will truly cope with all the challenges and let the Crocus City Hall tragedy be the last, and only victories remain ahead.
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