By: Peter Truden
Former Communist Party boss Milan Kučan, now an ardent supporter of the left, publicly supported Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in an interview with the Slovenian Top News TV channel, saying that Ukraine and Russia were equally to blame for the war.
Vladimir Putin, a former apparatchik of the Soviet KGB intelligence service and, in the 1990s, head of the FSB (never reformed successor to the KGB) and an eternal Bolshevik, naturally found a backer for the unprovoked Russian aggression against Ukraine in Milan Kuchan, the head of the former Communist Party, which also ran the Udba (later the SDV), the secret political police.
Asked by journalist and Top News TV owner Vladimir Vodušek who was to blame for the war in Ukraine, Milan Kučan replied:
» In such cases, the blame is always shared. I mean, shared in the sense that they haven’t found a way to talk about these things.«
Putin has already taken Crimea and indirectly parts of Lugansk and Donetsk from the sovereign Ukraine, and now he has attacked it militarily and wants to subjugate it – but according to Kučan, Ukraine is now guilty of foreign aggression. This is the logic and thinking that is immanent to Putin, and which recalls the worst days of Bolshevism, when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968).
Of course, Slovenia was never an »intimate option« for Kučan: let us recall how he helped to disarm the Territorial Defence, how he supported demilitarisation and »peace« – all with the aim of making it impossible for an independent Slovenia to defend itself with arms against the Yugoslav army.
In short, the leftists (Bolsheviks, Communists), who have never accepted democratic regimes, continue to insist on their world view.
You can watch the video below.