Fate Of Major Alcoholics Of 'Third Reich' Reminded To Drunk Azaronak

• 1.11.2021, 9:05

One of them was engaged in propaganda, and the other headed a quasi-labor organization.

The story about the disgusting behavior of propagandists Hladkaya and Lebiadzeva and their colleague Azaronak in Kurapaty (where they mocked the memory of the victims of Stalinism and were at foreign diplomats who had come to pay their respect to the murdered) was supplemented with one piquant detail: Azaronak was in a state of alcoholic intoxication.

This detail is not a sensation, says German-Belarusian historian Aliaksandr Frydman. Alcoholism, as well as drug addiction, is the bane of people who serve criminal regimes (both in punitive bodies and in propaganda) and understand that they will have to answer for their crimes one day. Their lives are often a contest between alcohol, which destroys them and often brings them to their grave, and justice, whose sword of Damocles is hanging over their heads and into whose hands they risk ending up after the collapse of the dictatorship.

There is one instructive example that all alcoholics in the service of criminal regimes should always remember: Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, the anti-Semitic mouthpiece of Nazi propaganda, and Robert Ley, head of the German Labor Front, perhaps the most famous drunkards of the Third Reich, ended up in the dock at the Nuremberg Trial. Ley committed suicide and Streicher was executed.