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| After Bäckman published a highly controversial book about the Estonian ] issue in September 2008, a number of Finnish and Estonian cultural figures, scholars, journalists and politicians, including ], ] and ], addressed the University of Helsinki with an ] of protest, partly in relation Bäckman teaching a course on "specialities of Estonian legal policy" in Spring 2009.<ref>http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239710765</ref> The former minister of foreign affairs of Finland Dr. ] reacted by saying the letter was "censorship letter" violating principles of freedom of speech.<ref></ref> The ] made a distancing statement holding that Bäckman's political views are his own and not representing the University's.<ref>http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239739349</ref><ref name=PM> ] ] ] {{et icon}}</ref> | After Bäckman published a highly controversial book about the Estonian ] issue in September 2008, a number of Finnish and Estonian cultural figures, scholars, journalists and politicians, including ], ] and ], addressed the University of Helsinki with an ] of protest, partly in relation Bäckman teaching a course on "specialities of Estonian legal policy" in Spring 2009.<ref>http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239710765</ref> The former minister of foreign affairs of Finland Dr. ] reacted by saying the letter was "censorship letter" violating principles of freedom of speech.<ref></ref> The ] made a distancing statement holding that Bäckman's political views are his own and not representing the University's.<ref>http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239739349</ref><ref name=PM> ] ] ] {{et icon}}</ref> | ||
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| Johan Bäckman | |
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| Born | 1971 |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Known for | Controversial views |
Johan Bäckman (born in 1971) is a Finnish controversial political author, legal sociologist and criminologist, holding adjunct professorships and temporary teaching positions in several Finnish universities.
He received his training in sociology and political history in the University of Helsinki, where he defended his Ph.D. in 2006 and is now adjunct professor in the sociology of law. He is also adjunct professor in criminology at the University of Turku and the University of Joensuu. He has taught courses on the sociology of law, criminology and Russian studies in several Finnish universities.
Bäckman has written about Finnish-Soviet relations during the Cold War, war history of Finland and the Soviet Union, organized crime in Russia and Estonia, the Russian Mafia, terrorism and history of Estonia. Bäckman's writings, published in Finland and Estonia, have been regarded as pro-Putin and anti-Estonian.
Bäckman and Russia
Bäckman has lived and worked in St. Petersburg Russia 1993-2004 and is fluent in Russian. In 2000 he opened a scientific research centre there called Johan Beckman Institute, specialised in publishing books about Finnish-Russian war history in several languages. Bäckman has been popular commentator in Russian national television, radio and press, often underlining Finnish and Estonian Russophobia and their re-writing of history, being anti-Russian. Bäckman is against the position of the Finnish president Tarja Halonen that Finland waged separate Continuation War against the aggression of the USSR. Bäckman claims Finns participated in the Siege of Leningrad actively and asked Hitler to destroy the city, planning to create Greater Finland consisting of Finland, Karelia, Leningrad, Northern Sweden and Norway, and Estonia. Bäckman has critisised Finnish nationalists’ attempts to return the territories lost in the Paris Peace Treaty.
The Politkovskaya book
In 2007 Bäckman published a book in Finnish titled "Satan Arrives in Helsinki - Finland and the murder of Anna Politkovskaya" (Template:Lang-fi), claming the American citizen Anna Politkovskaya assassination was organized by circles who wanted to smear Russian president Vladimir Putin and accusing Finnish politicians and Finnish PEN-club of Russophobia. Bäckman admires Vladimir Putin and compares him to Cold War-era Finnish president Urho Kekkonen and claimed that he wish Putin likewise ruled Russia for 26 years. He stated that Finland needs such organizations as pro-Kremlin Nashi. According to Bäckman, the freedom of the press in Russia is considerably higher than in Finland, and Estonia is not free at all.
Bäckman and Estonia
The Bronze Soldier book
In his book about the Bronze Soldier issue, Bäckman has written and argued against what he calls "apartheid policies" of Estonia and Latvia and given several controversial interviews e.g. claming Estonia will join Russian within a decade. In his opinion, Estonian integration policies are "apartheid" and represents a "criminal discrimination of Russians". Bäckman also claims the "destruction" of the Bronze Soldier grave site and monument in April 2007 by the Estonian government was "the end of history of Estonia". Bäckman has noted Russian youth hates Estonia and Latvia and will act accordingly when reach political power. In "Bronze Soldier" he dismissed the Soviet occupation of Estonia as a "Nazi myth". Bäckman has gained wide publicity in Estonia for denying the Soviet occupation during 1940-1941 and 1944-1991:
In my opinion speaking or writing of Soviet "occupation" should be criminalised as a form of racist propaganda. I demand five years prison sentence to everyone who dears to say Estonia was "occupied" by Soviet Union.
After Bäckman published a highly controversial book about the Estonian Bronze Soldier issue in September 2008, a number of Finnish and Estonian cultural figures, scholars, journalists and politicians, including Henrik Lax, Lasse Lehtinen and Sofi Oksanen, addressed the University of Helsinki with an open letter of protest, partly in relation Bäckman teaching a course on "specialities of Estonian legal policy" in Spring 2009. The former minister of foreign affairs of Finland Dr. Erkki Tuomioja reacted by saying the letter was "censorship letter" violating principles of freedom of speech. The University of Helsinki made a distancing statement holding that Bäckman's political views are his own and not representing the University's.
Bäckman has seriously stated that Estonia does not exist, and that the ideology being maintained by official Estonia is Nazism..
Nashi protests in Helsinki
In March 2009 Bäckman arranged a series of protests in Helsinki held by activists of Nashi, Night Watch and the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee against (in his words) opening a new anti-Russian front on information warfare on the territory of Finland by Estonian embassy. The protests were aimed aganst seminars, a book about the Soviet occupation of Estonia and films presented by the Estonian embassy, especially the film Soviet Story by Edvins Snore. In media commentaries for Swedish, Finnish and Russian press, television and radio, Bäckman claimed that the Soviet Union did not occupy Estonia and belittled the significance of the Soviet deportations from Estonia.
Estonian security police on Bäckman
The Estonian security police Kaitsepolitseiamet officer and historian Andres Kahar has strongly commented Bäckman in the Estonian press. In his opinion Bäckman is a Russian propagandist spreading disinformation which is similar to the claims Moscow is making.
In March 2009 Kahar said that Bäckman is a communist who maintains close friendship with well-known Finnish neo-nazi Risto Teinonen, both of whom know the former KGB agent residing in Estonia Vladimir Ilyashevich, all of them being linked with the young Muscovite historian Alexander Dyukov. In the assessment by Kaitsepolitseiamet, both Bäckman and Teinonen are likely to be part of a FSB operation directed from Moscow through Ilyashevich. Bäckman has denied he is a communist but at the same time he has said he admires the Finnish pro-Soviet Taistoist youth movement of the 1970s. Bäckman has denied him being an agent of the FSB. He has successfully sued individuals claiming so.
In his blog Bäckman clamed that in February 2009 the Estonian security police general director Raivo Aeg sent a letter to the chancellor of the University of Helsinki Ilkka Niiniluoto saying Bäckman is not welcomed in Estonia because he "in recent years has deliberately spread false and defamatory information about Estonian Republic and it’s history, insulting people who had suffered through the crimes against humanity committed by the Soviet regime".
Awards
The Saint Petersburg legislature awarded Bäckman Marshal Govorov Literature Prize (2004) for publishing the book Finland and the Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944 by Russian historian Nikolai Baryshnikov. The Finnish historian Timo Vihavainen commented the book was "built on Stalinist propaganda stereotypes" and the author had misundestood some sources
Works
- Bäckman, Johan (1996). Venäjän organisoitu rikollisuus. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos. ISBN 951-704-191-8.
- Bäckman, Johan (1997). Liikkeenjohto Venäjän muutoksessa. Helsinki: WSOY. ISBN 951-0-21672-0.
- Bäckman, Johan (1998). The inflation of crime in Russia: The social danger of the emerging markets. Helsinki: National Research Institute of Legal Policy. ISBN 951-704-211-6.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|Kieli=ignored (help) - Bäckman, Johan (1999). ”Sudella on sata tietä...”: Pietarin organisoitu rikollisuus Venäjän rikosoikeuskulttuurin kehyksessä. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos. ISBN 951-704-240-X.
- Bäckman, Johan (2001). Entäs kun tulee se yhdestoista? Suomettumisen uusi historia. Helsinki: WSOY. ISBN 951-0-25654-4.
- Bäckman, Johan (2006). Itämafia: Uhkakuvapolitiikka, rikosilmiöt ja kulttuuriset merkitykset. Espoo: Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu. ISBN 951-815-112.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: length (help) - Bäckman, Johan (2007). Saatana saapuu Helsinkiin: Anna Politkovskajan murha ja Suomi. Helsinki: Russia Advisory Group. ISBN 978-952-99785-1-9.
- Bäckman, Johan (2008). Pronssisoturi: Viron patsaskiistan tausta ja sisältö. Tallinn: Tarbeinfo. ISBN 978-9985-9721-7-5.
References
- "Oikeussosiologia 2008-2009". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 30.3.2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - "Dosentti Johan Bäckman, VTT". University of Turku. Retrieved 30.3.2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/val/sosio/vk/backman/abstract.html
- http://www.helsinki.fi/rpol/esittely/henkilosto.htm
- http://notes.utu.fi/ty/webexper.nsf/031b9e8464cecb05c22564dd003abe2e/9b3aa972eae3fe4ec22573b700208d2b?OpenDocument
- Eesti Ekspress 23 February 2009 12:43: Räige Eesti-vastane kampaania käib kolmes riigis korraga, edited by Askur Alas
- http://www.politika-karelia.ru/cgi-bin/articles_print.cgi?id=32
- http://www.rep.ru/20Mar2002/society/01.html
- http://www.politika-karelia.ru/cgi-bin/articles_print.cgi?id=32
- http://www.rep.ru/10Apr2002/society/02.html
- http://www.politika-karelia.ru/shtml/article.shtml?id=28
- http://www.gov.karelia.ru/Karelia/990/39.html
- ^ Десять лет, которые потрясут Эстонию Den' za Dnyom Template:Ru icon
- Helsingin Sanomat: Book accuses media and Green MP of inciting anti-Russian sentiment (2007-03-01)
- ^ http://www.apn-spb.ru/publications/article2329.htm
- http://www.apn-spb.ru/publications/article2316.htm
- Template:De icon "Estland in zehn Jahren Teil der Russischen Föderation". Der Standard. 2008-09-11. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
- Bäckman: Eesti on teel otse põrgusse Eesti Päevaleht 11 August 2008 Template:Et icon
- Finnish writer: Estonia to lose independence in 10 years Baltic Business News 11 August 2008
- Эстония прямиком движется в ад Molodezh Estonii 15 August 2008
- http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239739349
- http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239710765
- http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/1135239739349
- Helsingi ülikool distantseerus Bäckmani seisukohtadest Postimees 27 March 2008 Template:Et icon
- ves.lv 6 March 2009 13:02: "Эстония? Нет такого государства!", interview by Yelena Slyusareva
- Eesti Päevaleht 17 March 2009 13:44: Johan Bäckman: natsism on Eesti ametlik ideoloogia, edited by Kalev Kask
- ^ Helsingin Sanomat: Hundreds of listeners and a handful of protesters attend publication of book on Estonia (2007-03-24)
- Eesti Ekspress 18 March 2009 16:45: Üheskoos Eesti vastu: antifašist Bäckman ja natsimeelne Teinonen, edited by Askur Alas
- Bruun, Staffan (2009-03-22). "Han bjöd in 30 Putinunga". Hufvudstadsbladet. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- http://www.vunet.org/ulkomaat/story-8475.html
- http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=9118
External links
- Johan Bäckman in Estonian Research Portal
- Johan Bäckman at the University of Turku
- Blog about the book "The Bronze Soldier"
- Blog about the book "Finland washed with Anna Politkovskaya's blood"
- Article about Bäckmanä's book "Finland washed with the blood of Anna Politkovskaya"