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=== Estonian counter intelligence assessment of Bäckman=== === Estonian counter intelligence assessment of Bäckman===
The Estonian security police ] (Kapo) has attacked several times Dr. Bäckman via the Estonian press. In the opinion of Kapo officer Andres Kahar, Bäckman is a Russian propagandist spreading disinformation which is similar to the claims Moscow is making. In the opinion of the Estonian counter intelligence agency ], Bäckman is a Russian propagandist spreading disinformation which is similar to the claims Moscow is making.
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In March 2009 Kahar said that Bäckman is a communist who maintains close friendship with well-known Finnish neo-nazi ], both of whom know the former ] agent residing in Estonia ], all of them being linked with the young Muscovite historian ]. <ref name='backman+teinonen'>] ] ] 16:45: , edited by ]</ref> 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 him being an agent of the ]. He has successfully sued individuals claiming so.<ref name="apn fsb"/> In March 2009 the agency said that Bäckman is a communist who maintains close friendship with well-known Finnish neo-nazi ], both of whom know the former ] agent residing in Estonia ], all of them being linked with the young Muscovite historian ]. <ref name='backman+teinonen'>] ] ] 16:45: , edited by ]</ref> 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 him being an agent of the ]. He has successfully sued individuals claiming so.<ref name="apn fsb"/>


In his blog Bäckman clamed that in February 2009 the Estonian security police general director ] sent a letter to the ] of the University of Helsinki ] 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".<ref>http://www.vunet.org/ulkomaat/story-8475.html</ref> In his blog Bäckman clamed that in February 2009 the Estonian security police general director ] sent a letter to the ] of the University of Helsinki ] 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".<ref>http://www.vunet.org/ulkomaat/story-8475.html</ref>

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Johan Bäckman
Born1971
NationalityFinnish
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki
Known forControversial views

Johan Bäckman (born in 1971) is a Finnish controversial political author, legal sociologist and criminologist, holding adjunct professorships 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. As a spokesman for the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee he has argued against what he calls "apartheid policies" of Estonia and Latvia.

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

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In 2007 Bäckman published a book in Finnish titled Finland washed with Anna Politkovskaya's blood (Template:Lang-fi), claming the American citizen Anna Politkovskaya assassination was organized by circles who wanted to smear Russian president Vladimir Putin, possibly by Politkovskaya herself 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 highly controversial book about the Estonian Bronze Soldier Pronssisoturi: Viron patsaskiistan tausta ja sisältö, Bäckman has argued against what he calls "apartheid policies" of Estonia and Latvia. In his opinion, Estonian integration policies are "apartheid" and represents a "criminal discrimination of Russians". In the 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.

In connection to the publication of the book in September 2008, Bäckman gave several controversial interviews e.g. claming Estonia will join Russian within a decade. Bäckman also claimd that 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.

After the publication of the book 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.

Max Jakobson

Bäckman has seriously stated that Estonia does not exist as a sovereign state. Following publication of the final report of the Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity, Bäckman as part of the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee claimed that its chairman, the Finnish diplomat and one-time UN Secretary-General candidate Max Jakobson, is the "ideological father of the criminal apartheid regime of Estonia" and that this ideology being maintained by official Estonia is Nazism, according to Bäckman.

Bäckman arranged the "Nashi-protest" in March 23, 2009. The handful of demonstrators were the focus of attention for about 40 representatives of the media.

Nashi protests in Helsinki

In March 2009 Bäckman as part of the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee arranged a series of protests in Helsinki attended by activists of Nashi, Night Watch and the prospective Finnish Islamic Party represented by one time Neo-Nazi Abdullah Tammi against what he called the 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 counter intelligence assessment of Bäckman

In the opinion of the Estonian counter intelligence agency Kaitsepolitseiamet, Bäckman is a Russian propagandist spreading disinformation which is similar to the claims Moscow is making.

In March 2009 the agency 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 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".

Politics

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.

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.

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