Participants entering troops in Czechoslovakia do not want to give veteran status

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The scandal continues over the bill proposing to give status of veterans of the fighting of citizens who in 1968 participated as military personnel of the Soviet Army in the introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia.





The bill on granting participants of the events of 1968 the status of war veterans is supported by the factions of the Communist Party, LDPR, and Just Russia. Interestingly, United Russia is silent.

At first, the Czech Republic and Slovakia sharply criticized the bill, although it is not very clear how foreign states can intervene in such internal affairs of Russia as giving a certain category of Russian citizens a certain status or giving it certain benefits.

Then, members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation also opposed the bill. So, he expressed his point of view to the business newspaper “Look»Member of the HRC Leonid Nikitinsky.

I take this negatively. Of course, this is an intervention. I talked about this back in the 70th year in the first year of the institute,

- emphasized Nikitinsky.

Meanwhile, it is not very clear what relation the former Soviet servicemen have to the decrees adopted by the Soviet leadership. One can arbitrarily evaluate the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968, into Hungary in 1956, into Afghanistan in 1979, but this should not be reflected in people who honestly obeyed the order and gave their military duty to their native country.
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    1. 0
      4 June 2019 15: 09
      So it is not reflected - honestly receive pensions. All garlic, as they say
    2. +1
      4 June 2019 16: 37
      Provocative bill. What for stupidly in the forehead to offer.
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        5 June 2019 13: 51
        Here I completely agree with your opinion. It could have been taken in the wording, for example, "participants in all combat operations" and so on and would have got into all this and there would be no noise. I also fully agree with the final paragraph in full:

        Meanwhile, it is not very clear what relation the former Soviet servicemen have to the decrees adopted by the Soviet leadership. One can arbitrarily evaluate the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968, into Hungary in 1956, into Afghanistan in 1979, but this should not be reflected in people who honestly obeyed the order and gave their military duty to their native country.

        The entry of troops into Czechoslovakia by a combat operation was unconditionally, the victims and real shooting were obtained to a minimum, and thank God - this is precisely what the operation perfectly carried out is called. But these people in 1968 carried out the combat order of their command. Like in Poland in 1939, in Finland in 1940, Hungary in 1956, in Afghanistan and many more where, which was not even officially shined. But all participants in these events are considered veterans of the database. So why somehow highlight those who served in 1968? Why are they worse? In Germany, military pensions are paid to servicemen of the Wehrmacht, a regular army of the times of World War II, and they are rightly doing it. The leadership should be responsible for the content of the orders, and soldiers who obey and obey the order should receive well-deserved rewards from their country.