Member of the State Duma , who was smuggled to the village by Chechen women , compared the Russian troops to Nazi extermination squads : " What happened there was a large-scale punitive operation aimed at destroying the population . There was no organized resistance in Samashki . It was surely planned with the idea to kill as many as possible , in order to achieve a threatening effect . " The head of the Department of Caucasian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences compared the massacre to that of " Khatyn in Belarus , Lidice in Czechoslovakia " and said that the name Samashki " sounds more sinister than My Lai in Vietnam . " The English-language newspaper '' The Moscow News '' wrote in an editorial : " What the Russians did in Samashki is what the Germans did to us throughout the war WWII , but Russians did this to their own people . And that is unforgivable . What happened in Samashki during those days has only one definition . Genocide . " On the other hand , Stanislav Govorukhin of the official commission said " nothing unethical " has happened in Samashki
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