Tokens: There
are
few
who
deny
that
Stalin
’s
policy
was
as
genocidal
in
ideology
,
intent
and
execution
as
was
the
policy
pursued
by
Hitler
and
his
Nazi
collaborators
.
Both
totalitarian
regimes
pushed
political
violence
beyond
all
previous
limits
,
yet
in
terms
of
human
life
,
the
destructiveness
of
Stalin
’s
“
programme
”
“
outdid
any
other
disaster
in
European
history
,
even
the
Second
World
War
”
[
18
]
.
It
has
been
established
by
the
domestic
courts
in
this
case
that
the
applicant
actively
and
knowingly
executed
Stalinist
policy
as
operated
in
Lithuania
.
The
four
constitutive
requirements
of
the
offence
of
genocide
under
international
law
were
met
–
(
i
)
an
intention
(
ii
)
to
destroy
(
iii
)
part
of
(
iv
)
a
protected
group
.
That
he
could
find
himself
charged
with
and
convicted
of
genocide
must
be
regarded
as
having
been
foreseeable
by
the
applicant
(
in
the
event
of
a
regime
change
,
of
course
!
)
,
given
that
genocide
was
recognised
,
clearly
,
as
a
crime
,
under
international
law
at
the
time
of
his
participation
in
the
deaths
of
the
partisans
.
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