It is impossible to conceal war crimes and there is no need to idealize all the participants in hostilities. "When there is a war, there are those who love to kill ahead".

Such an opinion on the air "The Observer. LIVE "was expressed by the Russian poet and screenwriter Andrei Orlov, also known under the pseudonym of Orlusha.

So, speaking of Stalin's terror in the USSR and events on the fronts of the Second World War, he stressed that it is possible to come to reconciliation only with the help of truth.

"If people even in the form of my country committed war crimes, we should say:" Your grandfather raped someone 100 years ago in the forest belt ". You say, "Yes, my grandfather built houses well, but he was a criminal. We do not refuse from it, but we also do not boast. This reconciliation. We can not be ideal in history, "said Orlusha.

According to him, it is also important not just to know certain facts from history. A specific position must be formed on them.

"Assumed that there are German crimes of the war, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Moldovan and t. When there is a war, there are those who love to kill ahead, "said the poet.

"It's 3-5% of radical people. You can not make them absolute heroes. Suppose they went along with everyone, but when the army entered the city, someone would rob, kill, rape. But to say at the same time: "I'm mopping for my burnt house". If you ask, it turns out that the house is not his, but his neighbor. And not burned, but busy. But he "has the moral right" in the name of all to take revenge on the physical person. This I call a crime, "- said Orlov.

He said that in no case can not seek excuses for such actions, saying "time was like this".

Berlin 1945 g. Soviet soldier takes a bicycle from a German woman.

"You do not need to give the criminal argument ... Among their approximately equal percentage of livestock. But here we will turn everyone on the other side, and we all chew on our side. Especially during the war. If the burglar, together with all, rises to defend the Motherland, he can shoot well from the trench, but he will remain a robber in the shower. This is in any war, not just in today's ", - said Orlusha.

If among Ukrainians someone steals the money collected by people for the purchase of bullet-proof vests in the ATU, said the poet, he becomes a criminal under the laws of wartime.

"He did not steal bulletproof vests, he just gave death to five fighters.

And this is a criminal much larger than the one who shoots them from the Donbass. If you defended your people, then you defended. And if you stole from them, then you go to the other side, "Orlov stressed..

In this context, he added, people who are fond of dividing everyone on the principle of "their own - a stranger" must remember that "among their own, too, can be a stranger".

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