Serhii Semochko (shown), and her daughter are indeed citizens of the Russian Federation.Source: https://censor.net.ua/en/n3101713
https://censor.net.ua/en/news/3101713/sbu_confirms_wife_daughter_of_ukraines_foreign_intelligence_service_deputy_chief_have_russian_passports
10-16-18 The Bihus.info project also published copies of Russian passports of (Semochko's wife) Tetiana Lysenko, her daughter Anastasia Koton, and son-in-law Volodymyr Koton. The authenticity of the passports of Lysenko and Volodymyr Koton was confirmed by Bihus.info through the site of Russia’s Federal Tax Service, which also means they are registered as Russian taxpayers.
Lysenko’s son Stanislav is also registered as an individual entrepreneur in Russia. Semochko said that neither he nor Lysenko had any passports other than the Ukrainian ones. https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/intelligence-officer-confirms-his-wife-owns-high-end-house-denies-wrongdoing.html
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12-11-18 According to Bihus.info, Lysenko’s income amounted to $135,000 in 2010 through 2018, while Koton’s income totaled $59,000 during the period, and the income of other relatives was negligible. Semochko has never been a businessman, and an intelligence officer’s salary is not sufficient to buy such assets. https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/sbu-confirms-russian-citizenship-of-ukrainian-spys-wife.html
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10-3-18
https://newsbeezer.com/ukraineeng/the-relatives-of-newly-appointed-deputy-chief-of-the-foreign-intelligence-service-semochkj-russian-passports/
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11-29-18 Economic counterintelligence of security Service Sergey Semochko, who is suspected of involvement in the suspension of procurement of essential drugs for dialysis, demanded that the company “DIAVITA” bribe in the amount of 250 thousand dollars for the right to participate in the tender. At least this was told by one of the Directors of “DIAVITA” Sergei Christinana.
“Three years ago during a Ministry of health tender for life-saving drugs for dialysis in the amount of UAH 140 million in our office came two representatives of counterintelligence of SBU — Nicholas Bezzubenko and Roman Negovelov. Referring to his boss, that is, at the time of Mr. Semochko, required us $ 250 thousand “rollback” for participation in this tender. But we did not agree to such schemes,” said Christinana....
According to him, after that Semochko sent out to all customers “letters of happiness”, which stopped the purchase of important medicines in Ukraine. Christinana argues that because it has affected a lot of patients, of which about 200 died.
According to others, earlier, the SBU was covering pharmaceutical companies for a fee in 100 thousand dollars from the company. And pressed, went after, (company?) refused to pay.
Reporters also found in family members Semochko three houses in Koncha Zaspa worth several million dollars, and other expensive equipment, which is employee of SBU clearly could not acquire (via official) salary.
In addition, according to the investigation, the actual spouse Semochko and her children are the owners of Russian passports and has frequently visited the annexed Crimea. http://world.24-my.info/schemes-of-blood-dishonest-officials-are-killing-thousands-of-ukrainians/
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A. Solzhenitsyn born 100 years ago today the 11th Dec.
Quotes from his work follow:
Quotes from his work follow:
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. For us in Russia Communism is a dead dog, while for many people in the West it is still a living lion.
If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart…even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an uprooted small corner of evil.
Thanks to ideology the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing calculated on a scale in the millions.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.
But it is impossible to picture any of our interrogators, right up to Abakumov and Beria, wanting to slip into prisoner's skin even for one hour, or feeling compelled to sit and meditate in solitary confinement. Their branch of service does not require them to be educated people of broad culture and broad views—and they are not. Their branch of service does not require them to think logically—and they do not. Their branch of service requires only that they carry out orders exactly and be impervious to suffering—and that is what they do and what they are . We who have passed through their hands feel suffocated when we think of the legion, which is stripped bare of universal human ideals.
And even in the fever of epidemic arrests when people leaving for work said farewell to their families every day, because they could not be certain they would return at night, even then almost no one tried to run away and only in rare cases did people commit suicide. And that was exactly what was required. A submissive sheep is a find for a wolf.
There was a rumor going the rounds between 1918 and 1920 that the Petrograd Cheka, headed by Uritsky, and the Odessa Cheka, headed by Deich, did not shoot all those condemned to death but fed some of them alive to the animals in the city zoos. I do not know whether this is truth or calumny, or, if there were any such cases, how many were there. But I wouldn't set out to look for proof, either. Following the practice of the bluecaps, I would propose that they prove to us that this was impossible. How else could they get food for the zoos in those famine years? Take it away from the workibg class? Those enemies were going to die anyway, so why couldn't their deaths support the zoo economy of the Republic and thereby assist our march into the future? Wasn't it expedient?
The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations.... Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
At what point then should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest. ”
Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.nnUnlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there lying upon the rotting prison straw I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life--don't be afraid of misfortune and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart--and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them and never part from any of them in anger; after all you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: they struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surfac, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
-almost all from Gulag Archipelago
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-almost all from Gulag Archipelago
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from Warning to the West, 1976 by A. Solzhenitsyn
Among the leadership, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, at the beginning of the Revolution all were emigre intellectuals who had returned after the uprisings had already broken out in Russia in order to carry through the Communist Revolution. One of them was a genuine worker, a highly skilled lathe operator until the last day of his life. This was Alexander Shliapnikov. Who knows that name today? Precisely because he expressed the true interests of the workers within the Communist leadership. In the years before the Revolution it was Shliapnikov who ran the whole Communist Party in Russia - not Lenin, who was an emigre. In 1921 he headed the Workers' Opposition which was charging the Communist leadership with betraying the workers' interests, with crushing and oppressing the proletariat and transforming itself into a bureaucracy.
Shliapnikov disappeared from sight. He was arrested somewhat later and since he firmly stood his ground he was shot in prison and his name is perhaps unknown to most people here today. But I remind you: before the Revolution the head of the Communist Party of Russia was Shliapnikov - not Lenin.
Since that time the working class has never been able to stand up for its rights, and in distinction from all the western countries our working class only receives what they hand out to it. It only gets handouts. It cannot defend its simplest, everyday interests, and the least strike for pay or for better living conditions is viewed as counter-revolutionary. Thanks to the closed nature of the Soviet system, you have probably never heard of the textile strikes in 1930 in Ivanovo, or of the 1961 worker unrest in Murom and Alexandrovo, or of the major workers' uprising in Novocherkassk in 1962 - this in the time of Khrushchev, after the thaw….
workers went in a peaceful demonstration to the Party City Committee, carrying portraits of Lenin, to request a change in economic conditions. They fired at them with machine guns and dispersed the crowds with tanks. No family dared even to collect its wounded and dead, but all were taken away in secret by the authorities….
We are told: "We cannot defend those who are unable to defend themselves with their own human resources." But against the overwhelming powers of totalitarianism, when all of this power is thrown against a country - no country can defend itself with its own resources. For instance, Japan doesn't have a standing army.
We are told "We should not protect those who do not have full democracy." This is the most remarkable argument of the lot. This is the Leitmotif I hear in your newspapers and in the speeches of some of your political leaders. Who in the world ever on the front line of defense against totalitarianism has been able to sustain full democracy? You, the united democracies of the world, were not able to sustain it. America, England, France, Canada, Australia together did not sustain it. At the first threat of Hitlerism, you stretched out your hands to Stalin. You call that sustaining democracy?…
I remember very well the year, this was June of 1937 when Chkalov, Baidukov and Beliakov heroically flew over the North Pole and landed in the state of Washington. This was the very year when Stalin was executing more than 40,000 persons a month. And Stalin knew what he was doing. He sent those pilots and aroused in you a naive delight - the friendship of two countries across the North Pole. The pilots were heroic, nobody will say anything against them. But this was a show - a show to divert you from the real events of 1937….
Lenin who spent most of his life in the West and not in Russia, who knew the West much better than Russia always wrote and said that the western capitalists would do anything to strengthen the economy of the USSR. They will compete with each other to sell us goods cheaper and sell them quicker, so that the Soviets will buy from one rather than from the other. He said: They will bring it themselves without thinking about their future. And in a difficult moment at a party meeting in Moscow he said: "Comrades, don't panic, when things go very hard for us we will give a rope to the bourgeoisie, and the bourgeoisie will hang itself."
Then Karl Radek, whom you may have heard of, who was a very resourceful wit said: "Vladimir Ilyich, but where are we going to get enough rope to hang the whole bourgeoisie?” Lenin effortlessly replied "They'll supply us with it.”…
The major construction projects in the initial five-year plan were built exclusively with American technology and materials. Even Stalin recognized that two-thirds of what was needed was obtained from the West. And if today the Soviet Union has powerful military and police forces - in a country which is by contemporary standards poor - they are used to crush our movement for freedom in the Soviet Union - and we have western capital to thank for this also.
Stalin demanded that the Soviet citizens who did not want to return home be handed over to him, and the western countries handed over 1.5 million human beings. How was this done? They took them by force. English soldiers killed Russians who did not want to become prisoners of Stalin and drove them by force to Stalin to be exterminated. …
We already hear voices in your country and in the West "Give up Korea and we will live quietly. Give up Portugal, of course: give up Japan, give up Israel, give up Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, give up 10 more African countries. Just let us live in peace and quiet. Just let us drive our big cars on our splendid highways; just let us play tennis and golf, in peace and quiet; just let us mix our cocktails in peace and quiet as we are accustomed to doing; just let us see the beautiful toothy smile with a glass in hand on every advertisement page of our magazines.”…
Everything poisonous which could be said about the United States was said in Stalin's days. And all of this is a heavy sediment which can be stirred up anytime. Any day the newspapers can come out with the headlines "Bloodthirsty American imperialism wants to seize control of the world," and this poison will rise up from the sediment and many people in our country will believe this, and will be poisoned by it and will consider you as aggressors. This is how detente has been managed on our side. http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles7/SolzhenitsynWarning.php
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