 The tragedy and crime of 'Nord-Ost', judging from the rather delusional comments in the semiofficial media, is a sort of Victory Day. It has not yet been five years, but the 10, 15, and 20-year celebrations will pass. Every 5 years the television will squeal about how we defeated the terrorists and destroyed them all, posthumously treating their commander to a bottle of cognac, and shooting one young hostage who made it outside because he had dark hair. Illiterate anthropologists from 'Alpha', 'Beta' and 'Gamma', whose Greek letters could fit perfectly in the three Russian letters of KGB, visually determined that, since he did not look like a pure Slav, he was a Chechen terrorist. He turned out to be a pure Russian, a Siberian, and those who gassed the young man and ordered him finished off, after learning of their error, they did not shoot themselves.
Our security services and the highest echelons of the government are composed of a Black Maria van, Stalin-era cattle cars, a locomotive that flies toward a camp, steam, whistle, and dismantled iron rails. But they do not sink under water. We would do well to remember that Chechen spectators who lived her whole life in Moscow, who, poisoned from the gas and already half dead, was taken from the hospital to jail just because she was a Chechen (since Chechens only go to the theater to carry out terror attacks). It is well that her mother managed to contact human rights advocates, and this unlucky theatergoer, with the assistance of 'Echo of Moscow', 'Radio Liberty', and CNN, managed to make it home to finish healing. Otherwise she might have been a second Zara Murtazaliyeva.
The victory was final and complete. No negotiations were held with the Chechen rebel leadership. No one had to regret what he did in Chechnya, which is why one show was replaced by another. After NTV played a cat and mouse came with the security officials in order to prevent them from carrying out an assault, journalists were been banned from areas of terrorist attacks so that they would not get underfoot and interfere with improving performance.
Compare this: after 'Nord-Ost' they buried of 132 hostages, while after Beslan — seven times as many. The growth of 'performance indicators' is obvious. The main thing is to eliminate witnesses, such as what Anna Politkovskaya and Andrei Babitsky could have been in Beslan. Then one can go about one's mischief in peace, using nerve gas and burning up a school with flamethrowers, shooting it up with tanks…
Ladies and gentleman: do not attend patriotic performances. 'Nord-Ost' was a play about pilots, but for the Chechens our pilots are not heroes. They are executioners. The Chechens are not just guerrillas sitting in the mountains, but civilians: children, women, and old people who were burned alive in a apartment buildings in Grozny, and they remember well who dropped the vacuum bombs that are banned by the international community and the chemical weapons ban. And it not just Polonium, which the intelligence brotherhood used to kill Litvinenko, but also nerve gas that was used to kill Georgian demonstrators in April 1989 and hostages at 'Nord-Ost' 5 years ago. I do not believe that they would dare make such decisions without the president. No one was ever interested in the hostages. They were written off in advance — let the chips fall where they may.
Russia is the only country in the world that could beat its terrorists unlike those poor wretches in America, Israel, and England. Their terrorists demand the devil knows what, whatever is impossible to fulfill. The removal of troops from Chechnya, however, this is a demand that is reasonable, workable, and fair. While Maskhadov was still alive, it all it would have turned out to the good. There was still an intellectual Westerner in Ahmed Zakayev, who could have led Chechnya in a European fashion.
But, alas, five years ago the Kremlin had only one setting: destroy the Chechen rebel leadership and show no weakness, no humanity. The Chechens were not going to blow up the auditorium or shoot the hostages. The terror attack was largely imitation and hoax, and its culmination (quite in the style of Shamil Basayev) was to be a procession of relatives of the hostages with anti-war placards and banners calling for a troop withdrawal. We had to wait for the Chechen fighters to finally go to protest rallies — what a shame!
Then the hostages were piled into heaps on the pavement, and improperly laid on their backs. There were not enough antidotes for everyone, and people were tossed like cordwood into buses, and, of course, half to the morgue. Was it a counter-terrorist, or a counter-humanity operation? From the very start, the hostages were not just afraid of the Chechens, but also of their own government. They begged them not to storm the auditorium — they wanted to live. The Chechen rebels turned out to be closer to them than their own president and the 'Alfa' commandos: the Chechens and the Russians, all victims of the war, all lay together in the morgue. Damned be the 'diggers'. Those, who led 'Alfa' and death through the underground passageway, there is blood on their hands, and blood on the Kremlin wall. Meanwhile the Lubyanka stands in blood…
When gas started coming in, the hostages understood everything and began to take their farewells from their loved ones. They were not told that they were being taken to the showers, as had been said at Auschwitz. They were not given towels. They had no illusions. They understood that they were in a gas chamber. So here it is: our victory, its underside, and its price.
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