Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case (Bunt. Delo Litvinenko)

I beg you, if anything happens to me,

I beg you to show this tape to the whole world

and say that these people may very well

have committed contract killings inside Russia and abroad.

The damning press conference -

Alexander Litvinenko -

The FSB is a money-making tool.

A new twist in the story of Alexander Litvinenko -

The origin of these terrorist acts

lies with Chechen bandits.

Today, on the last day ofthe century,

I am stepping down.

I think I have completed the greatest task of my life.

Russia will never go back to the past.

I would like to say to every one of you, be happy.

You deserve happiness and peace.

Happy New Year.

Happy new century, my dear people.

-fighting for peace, for the unity of Russia.

Shall we deny that we have losses?

Because Russia's enemies are talking about our heavy losses.

Should we not admit our soldiers get killed?

But call them what they are - heroes?

ALL KILLED - MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS

So how did this short film make you feel?

You, sir?

Alexei Shcherbakov, political scientist. The film is one-sided.

These children become terrorists who cut people's heads off.

A man asks, "Are these children that you kill, Putin, really terrorists?"

Yes. They are future terrorists!

So are we to kill all ofthem

because they may become terrorists?

Here is Andrei Nekrasov, the director ofthe film you just saw.

Sometimes we call this conflict war, sometimes an anti-terrorist operation.

It's not the same thing.

We call it "war" to justify civilian deaths.

But it's often more convenient

for our leaders to call it an anti-terrorist operation.

Nowhere else on earth are there any such anti-terrorist operations.

I don't want to compare us to the West all the time,

a civilized society, etc.

It's a question of morals.

The state has no right to confuse security with revenge.

If the state puts itself on the same level with terrorists,

the state becomes terrorist.

We've all grown up in disgust and fear of war.

I was born 15 years after World War II ended.

Our mothers and grandmothers said, "Never let war happen again!"

In 1975, we were scared of nuclear attacks from the United States.

We wept watching scenes in World War II films

of Russian soldiers being tortured by Germans.

We are heartbroken when we see a child with a leg blown off.

But there is another side.

Maybe if it wasn't for the bombings of the apartment blocks,

the attitude to this war would have been different.

How can we explain the bombings in Moscow?

Who did it?

Yes, who did it?

connected to Litvinenko.

Thankyou. Goodbye.

Right after the tragedy of 9/11, we, the Chechen government,

proposed vigorous help in investigating that crime.

What I am familiar with is totally confirmed by the documents,

and also, what is most important, by Litvinenko's personal experience.

Thankyou.

Will your assistant give me the number?

I'll give it to you.

Everybody talks about the FSB, but only a few understand

what this mysterious organization is all about.

In our country,

the special services are, in fact, a secret political organization

that uses sharp methods,

secret methods,

not against spies and terrorists,

but solely to keep a ruling class in power.

In 1999, for example,

to seize power, the FSB used secret methods

that are only allowed against terrorists and spies.

If the army were to seize power,

they'd roll in with tanks and guns and fly in with jets maybe.

But everyone would notice.

The FSB, on the other hand, has secret methods,

and nobody noticed anything until chekists made up the government

and seized every organ of power.

If the KGB was the armed unit ofthe Communist Party,

then the FSB is the armed unit of..

of a caste of corrupt Russian officials.

These criminals, who sold out to the enemy,

the traitors and spies who sold our country to the enemy,

shall be shot as mad dogs.

What is it, how and why Boys, ask your fathers, ask

Here one learns to be brave, resourceful,

Loyal to one's duty.

This is a serious matter.

Not all of you will graduate-

Putin, before entering a university, offered his services to the KGB.

And his services were made use of.

That means, during his student years, Putin had to inform on his friends.

As a university student who had volunteered for the KGB,

Putin would be trained for at least a year

by the officers of the Fifth Department of the KGB.

They were only interested in one thing:

the fight against the enemy's ideology,

the fight against intellectual dissent.

So Putin's task would be to single out students

who criticized the Party, who criticized Soviet leaders,

who told political jokes- he'd inform about it in writing.

Putin claims the KGB taught him to love the motherland.

Well, he learnt to love the motherland while he was squealing on his pals.

Glory,

Soviet students!

Glory to Soviet youth!

It was right here

that members of the People's Will were kept.

They were locked up in these cells.

There has always been fear, sure.

You think being a dissident wasn't scary?

It was. I was once hit on the jaw with a foot.

How was it possible to have such a law? Anti-Soviet propaganda.

You say the truth and are arrested for it.

But today you can't really criticize the government either, can you?

I was interrogated every day for three months.

You know who Cherkesov is, don't you?

He would come in while I was being interrogated by another officer.

He'd ask who I was, and so on.

When at the beginning of the '90s,

a friend told me that Cherkesov was getting into the Duma,

I said I didn't know any Cherkesov.

But when I saw him on television,

I remembered everything.

Forgive me, but in the camps we called such people ass lickers.

And what about us?

I ask you, why did they have to torture us?

Proof of guilt- poems by Anna Akhmatova.

Liteyny Avenue, 4. "The Big House."

The KGB may not be preserved.

CHERKESOV IS THE SHAME OF ST. PETERSBURG

OPEN THE KGB ARCHIVES!

Now Mr. Cherkesov admits, "Yes, we persecuted dissidents.

But such were the laws then." And he says he acted legally.

In his own way, he is right. He acted legitimately in an illegitimate state.

DOWN WITH THE JUNTA!

Then we moved to a new stage.

The state became legitimate.

We got free elections. A democracy appeared.

The special services were now illegitimate in a legitimate state.

But for the special services to continue operating with impunity,

they needed to make the state illegitimate again.

But how can you make a democratic state illegitimate?

You must provoke it into a political trap. War.

The invasion of Chechnya was in the cards.

A tank corps was formed out of the Cantemir division

and sent to Grozny.

Remember, in 1994, no one understood

why this column of tanks just stood there in Grozny.

Until they were attacked and burnt down.

Yeltsin was presented with a devastating picture.

"Look, the Chechens attacked us!"

Some Duma members decided to go

and speak to the Chechen leader, Dudayev, to avert the war.

And right at this moment, in 1994, explosions were heard in Moscow,

introduced by the warnings that Chechen rebels were on their way to Moscow.

They started by massaging public opinion. The explosions followed.

The first blast was at the bridge over the Yauza River.

Captain Shelenkov was killed by his bomb. Explosions at the railroad followed.

Specialists think terrorists wanted to test public opinion.

At the site of the explosion, a mangled body was found

that was identified as Russian Army Captain Andrei Shelenkov.

Then there was the explosion on a bus.

In that case they arrested and charged the army officer Vorobyov.

Both these Russians, Shelenkov and Vorobyov,

were FSB agents.

Those terrorist bombings were perpetrated by the FSB.

Don't let the war in here, please!

Yeltsin be cursed!

He'll spill the blood of our children!

We thought he'd give us freedom!

When Yeltsin started the Chechen war,

he stopped being a democratic leader and became illegitimate.

BORIS, THE BLOOD OF OUR SONS IS FLOWING.

YOU SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN!

New Year was at our door, and merry music all around,

when Chechnya found itself at war.

And bombs were falling on the ground.

Why should we pay for stupid blunders with the lives of our sons?

War was a long way from our homeland.

Why is it back, one wonders.

We lived as brethren, not as foes.

Chechnya was close to our hearts.

God Almighty, why is all in tatters? And who can help us understand?

Where are we heading? Who is after our boys?

We dote on them, raise them, only for them to be slain?

Don't you dare come near our sons and send them to kill others!

For our tears, for their blood, you shall never be forgiven!

The army is using forbidden means.

A tragic example is Pervomayskoye.

It was shelled with tanks and jets. Every third house was wiped out.

Who gave you the right to shell peaceful villages

from helicopters and tanks?

I fought in Chechnya, yes.