HASLexandre Skobov was sentenced, on March 21, by a military court in Saint Petersburg, to sixteen years in prison for “apology for terrorism” and “participation in the activities of a terrorist community”. In reality, it was his opposition to the war against Ukraine earned him this condemnation. Skobov is a dissident who has been fighting totalitarianism since his 19 years, in the time of Brejnev. He knew prison and punitive internment in a psychiatric hospital.
Skobov is a political commentator and a thinker who delivered a precise and lucid analysis of the nature of the Putin regime by calling for a resolved resistance, at a time when many were those who were still rushing in illusions, in Russia as in the West. Skobov refused emigration to remain faithful to himself, to fight his last fight and accomplish a duty of solidarity with the young resistance fighters who left to fight in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces, or sent to camps following sabotage actions in Russian territory.
Skobov is a publicist who, unlike the majority of his colleagues in the so -called “independent” Russian media, refused in principle to submit to repressive laws restricting freedom of expression, and this well before 2022. Rejecting self -censorship, Skobov was not afraid to use the words “annexation” or “aggression”, and qualified Putin as “New Hitler”. During his trial, he refused to comply with the rules of the game, declaring: “I do not recognize and I do not respect your court. »» He attacked “This click to power that stinks: in the preparation, the outbreak and conduct of a war of aggression, in war crimes in Ukraine, in political terror in Russia, in the corruption of my people”, Before concluding, shouting: “Glory to Ukraine!” »»
“The alliance of two predators”
Skobov does everything in his power so that the “Values of 1945” in Europe are not abandoned without fighting. He opposes all “Standardization” of the unacceptable, militates for a total military defeat and a “Dismantling of Nazi Russia”pleads in favor of in -depth strikes on Russian territory, for a direct participation of the West in the war alongside Ukraine and for an armed struggle against Putinian tyranny inside Russia.
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Source: Lemonde