A bright flash from the history of the Russian Resistance. Without reference to any “dates” or “anniversaries” - it is simply important to read, understand, and take note.

On May 10, 1923, in Lausanne, Switzerland, near the Cecil Hotel, Soviet diplomat and veteran Bolshevik Vaclav Vorovsky was shot dead by White Guard officer Maurice Conradi. Having killed Vorovsky and wounded his two assistants, Conradi gave the revolver to the head waiter with the words: “I did a good deed - the Russian Bolsheviks destroyed all of Europe... This will benefit the whole world.”

In his opening statement at the trial, Conradi said:

“I believe that with the destruction of every Bolshevik, humanity moves along the path of progress. I hope that other brave souls will follow my example, thereby demonstrating the greatness of their feelings.”

The prosecutor in his speech stated that even the murder of a tyrant is a crime.

In response, one of the lawyers, Theodor Ober, pointed out the window at the monument to the national hero of Switzerland William Tell, and suggested demolishing it. Tell, according to legend, killed the imperial governor during the Swiss struggle for independence.

The defense turned the trial of Conradi into a trial of Bolshevism. During the ten days of the trial, about 70 witnesses spoke in the courtroom, talking about the crimes of Bolshevik tyranny. As a result , the court acquitted Conradi by a majority vote, qualifying his act as an act of fair retribution for the Soviet regime for its atrocities.

According to the verdict, Conradi, a member of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, would be recognized as “acting under the pressure of circumstances.”

Russian émigré writer Mikhail Artsybashev, covering the trial, wrote:

“Vorovsky was killed not as an ideological communist, but as an executioner... Killed as an agent of the world’s arsonists and poisoners, who are preparing the fate of unfortunate Russia for the whole world.”

Swiss public opinion was entirely on Conradi's side. The Western press, under the influence of the court, actively wrote about the crimes of the Bolsheviks in the USSR and their subversive activities in the West.

It would be good for modern journalists, lawyers, and Western officials to know this story. To know how clearly the West used to separate good and evil.

Moscow, enraged by the acquittal, broke off relations with Switzerland.

The communists, as a response propaganda campaign, began to disfigure the streets and squares of the cities under their control by renaming them in honor of Vorovsky.

Ukraine has washed away the traces of this yoke and removed the names of Vorovsky and other scoundrels from the maps.

In Mariupol, until 2016, there was also Vorovskogo Street. Now Putin's occupiers have probably returned the name back. But this is temporary.

The time will come when the streets of the liberated cities of Russia will also bear the names of Maurice Conradi and other heroes - both from past eras and from the present era.

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