Cringe of the day: Bastrykin read his own nostalgic Soviet poem at a legal forum...

Cringe of the day: Bastrykin read his own nostalgic poem about the Soviet Union at a legal forum and said he had repeatedly proposed bringing back the death penalty, but nobody supported him(((

I want to go back to the Union,

Where I was born,

Throwing off deception and a heavy burden,

Freed from dreams.

From all freedoms and mortgages,

From rising prices, inflation,

From long rivers of empty talk,

Deceptions and installations.

From the Central Bank with its key rate,

Forever rising,

Like a vile beating

From an endlessly snarling mutt.

I want to return to the old world,

Where there was brotherhood of all peoples,

Where wealth was not an idol,

Nor the scale of income.

But there is always certainty

That our future

Always depends on labor,

And tomorrow will be brighter.

And only common honest labor,

And equality, and brotherhood

Will bring happiness to the people,

And our state

Will return to us the power of good,

Faith in justice again,

And the winds of October

Will again return implacability

Toward those who love to oppress,

To deceive and rob,

Not to stand at the machine in the workshop,

But to fool the workers.

And the awakened people again

Will return to supreme power,

And again the sky will be adorned

Not as a sign of the passion for profit,

But by the stars of the coat of arms of that country

That united us.

We were all born in it,

And this is our strength.

Bastrykin also said that a Chinese acquaintance of his had been executed for corruption. The head of the Investigative Committee said he had proposed bringing back the death penalty, but for some reason nobody supported him:

“The party (the CCP) supports only honest business. And they shoot corrupt officials there. There was an example: when someone came to me — well, I won’t name him — a public figure, the president of Interpol at one time, a Chinese man. Suddenly he is recalled to China, he stops by to see me, tells me something — well, I won’t go into details. And then he goes on to China. That’s it. They report to me: he was detained at the airport, arrested, and executed by court order. China’s deputy minister of public security, the president of Interpol. No regard for rank. I have repeatedly called for bringing back the death penalty; nobody supported me. Boundless humanism.”

Journalists note that he is likely referring to former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who, surprise, was not executed. In 2020, a court sentenced him to 13.5 years in prison for taking