9th of May: Honoring People's Antifascist Victory!

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Спасибо! (Thank you) - Veterans of the Red Army.
By Nikos Mottas / In Defense of Communism ©

9th May 1945: The day when the Red flag with sickle and hammer was raised thriumphantly over the Reichstag in Berlin. The day when Nazi Germany surrended unconditionally to the Red Army, marking a great victory of humanity over fascism. The 9th May is, without doubt, one of the brightest dates in human history, a glorious day for the first Socialist state, for the Soviet Union and it's people.

On this day, we pay tribute to all those heroes, men and women, who gave their own lives on the battlefields. We remember all those heroes who fought against the monster of Fascism. From the bottom of our heart we express our gratitude to the fighters of the Soviet Army, to the communist and anti-fascist partisans in Europe who led the liberation struggles against the Nazis. We remember and honor all those men and women, of every age, who maintained a heroic stance against the firing squads of the fascists.

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On this day, we remember the enormous contribution of the Soviet Union in the victory against Fascism. It was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which paid the highest cost in human sacrifices and shouldered the major burned of the war. The contribution of the USSR in the fight against the Nazis was both heroic and decisive: More than 20 million dead (along with the disabled and wounded ones the number approaches 30 million), more than 7 million civilian casualties and extensive destruction of infrastructure (32,000 industrial enterprises and almost 65,000 railway kilometres were fully of partially destroyed).

The leading role of the working class and the masses, the socialization of the means of production as well as the central planning of Soviet economy were decisive in preparing Soviet Union's defense against the enemy. The USSR leadership, under the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks and Joseph Stalin personally, had managed to cover a long distance of socio-economic socialist development in a period of 20 years followed the end of the civil war.

Today, we have to face various distortions of the historical truth. The various mechanisms of the bourgeois state, the instruments of capitalism, constantly attempt to vilify the USSR and the achievements of 20th century's Socialism. They try to brainwash people (especially the younger ones) by equating Communism with Nazism under the “umbrella” of “totalitarianism”. They hide that both Fascism and Hitler's Nazism were Capitalism's children, that Nazi Germany was financially supported by European and US monopolies. They hide the fact that the fascist monster emerged from the bowels of the Capitalist system.

It is our duty to defend the historical truth and to expose the anti-communist lies. The 9th of May is a day of remembrance but also a source of inspiration in order to deal with the present and future tasks and struggles with decisiveness, readiness and maturity.

https://communismgr.blogspot.gr/2016/05/9th-of-may-honoring-peoples-antifascist.html

It is our duty to defend the historical truth and to expose the anti-communist lies.

This is absolutely true. It is an uphill fight, but everything is...

Fascism shall not pass! Left forces to rally on Victory Day in Moscow

From the United Communist Party (OKP) of Russia:

On May 9, 2017, on the 72th anniversary of the Great Victory over fascism, at 10.00 on the Krasnopresnenskoy Square (1905 Metro station), a rally of communist and left-wing forces will be held.

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Recently, attempts to rehabilitate Nazi accomplices and criminals have become more frequent. So, for example, among the heroic participants of the Battle of Moscow, the name of the general-traitor Vlasov is stamped on the commemorative sign mounted on the Permilov Heights (Yakhrom). In the Rostov region there is a monument to the collaborator of the general of the cossack units of the SS Krasnov. For many years, one of the main symbols of the Victory – Lenin’s Mausoleum – has been nervously draped before every Victory parade.

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Organizing for revolutionary Victory Day in Leningrad/St. Petersburg.
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The result of such a policy can be seen in Ukraine, where after many years of de-Sovietization and glorification of Nazi war criminals, a fratricidal war was unleashed in Donbass.

The participants in the rally consider unacceptable any attempts to revise the outcome of the Great Patriotic War and Second World War. No to attempts at glorification of the Nazi collaborators and war criminals.

The organizers of the action consistently advocate for prisoners of conscience, persecuted for political reasons, for upholding the legitimate rights of people and citizens.

Fascism shall not pass!
No to fascism, no to capitalism!
Glory to the Soviet Soldier-Liberator!
Victory Banner on the Kremlin!

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Victory Speech

Broadcast from Moscow at 20.00 hours (Moscow time) on May 9, 1945

May 9, 1945


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Marshal Josef Stalin

COMRADES! Men and women compatriots!

The great day of victory over Germany has come. Fascist Germany, forced to her knees by the Red Army and the troops of our Allies, has acknowledged herself defeated and declared unconditional surrender.

On May 7 the preliminary protocol on surrender was signed in the city of Rheims. On May 8 representatives of the German High Command, in the presence of representatives of the Supreme Command of the Allied troops and the Supreme Command of the Soviet Troops, signed in Berlin the final act of surrender, the execution of which began at 24.00 hours on May 8.

Being aware of the wolfish habits of the German ringleaders, who regard treaties and agreements as empty scraps of paper, we have no reason to trust their words. However, this morning, in pursuance of the act of surrender, the German troops began to lay down their arms and surrender to our troops en masse. This is no longer an empty scrap of paper. This is actual surrender of Germany’s armed forces. True, one group of German troops in the area of Czechoslovakia is still evading surrender. But I trust that the Red Army will be able to bring it to its senses.

Now we can state with full justification that the historic day of the final defeat of Germany, the day of the great victory of our people over German imperialism has come.

The great sacrifices we made in the name of the freedom and independence of our Motherland, the incalculable privations and sufferings experienced by our people in the course of the war, the intense work in the rear and at the front, placed on the altar of the Motherland, have not been in vain, and have been crowned by complete victory over the enemy. The age-long struggle of the Slav peoples for their existence and their independence has ended in victory over the German invaders and German tyranny.

Henceforth the great banner of the freedom of the peoples and peace among peoples will fly over Europe.

Three years ago Hitler declared for all to hear that his aims included the dismemberment of the Soviet Union and the wresting from it of the Caucasus, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, the Baltic lands and other areas. He declared bluntly: “We will destroy Russia so that she will never be able to rise again.” This was three years ago. However, Hitler’s crazy ideas were not fated to come true—the progress of the war scattered them to the winds. In actual fact the direct opposite of the Hitlerites’ ravings has taken place. Germany is utterly defeated. The German troops are surrendering. The Soviet Union is celebrating Victory, although it does not intend either to dismember or to destroy Germany.

Comrades! The Great Patriotic War has ended in our complete victory. The period of war in Europe is over. The period of peaceful development has begun.

I congratulate you upon victory, my dear men and women compatriots!

Glory to our heroic Red Army, which upheld the independence of our Motherland and won victory over the enemy!

Glory to our great people, the people victorious!

Eternal glory to the heroes who fell in the struggle against the enemy and gave their lives for the freedom and happiness of our people!

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LIVE Victory Day parade from #Donetsk #DPR via @PLnewstoday


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May 9 in New Russia and Ukraine

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Actually, even in the celebration of a particular historical events that clearly seen unavoidable difference between the current and the People's Republic of Ukraine, which probably associate themselves with the losers axis countries than countries with victor. The more valuable the act of those people who in spite of the terror tactics and intimidation, was not afraid to go celebrate the Day of Victory in the Ukraine, Bandera, remembering those who actually won.
Well, DNR and LNR once again show that they are in all their internal problems, the adequacy of the islands, which look more boldly against the background of what is happening in Ukraine.

Residents DNR and LNR and their advocates on the holiday! It is also the holiday of all appropriate people in Ukraine!

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Many more photos and videos at link. Particularly galling is the March of Immortals in Kiev, forced between a gauntlet of fascist flags. There was scattered violence throughout fascist occupied Novarussia and it appears the Bandera boys got the worse of it.

Nikolaev fascists attacked Afghans

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May 10, 15:22

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In continuation of the theme "The punishment of those responsible" http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/340 9496.html . At this time, Nikolaev, where yesterday the Afghans beat fascist provocateurs. Today, for it was followed by retribution.

Wednesday afternoon, 10 May, about 30 people - members of right-wing organizations in Nikolaev attacked the office of the Association of veterans of fighting in Afghanistan and reserve soldiers.


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As we found out "news-N», at about 11.00 in the office came a few people under the guise of the "truce" - talk about yesterday's skirmish during the Victory Day celebrations. However, the conversation did not take place - after "truce" to the office burst masked men and began smashing the flags standing at the reception. The attackers were about 30 people, among them members of civil corps "Azov". In the office at that time were 7 people. The first assailant jumped to the head of the Association of Yuri Soloviev, behind him two more.

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Nightingale and his comrades immediately knocked down and beaten. Most got it Nightingale - he struck his head with a metal bar, he opened a fractured finger on his left hand, multiple bruises. In addition, he was beaten by three others. A minute later the attackers ran out of the office. Currently, the office of "Afghans" at St. Nicholas surrounded by police.

The attackers are not particularly hidden - they are a distinct group of here, near the office. No attempt to detain the police has not taken. Right-wing radicals did not hide the fact that the attack on the "Afghans" office - this is revenge for yesterday's incident during the Victory Day celebrations.

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funny, but yesterday on the same site, anticipated today's violence pointing to the inevitability of further radicalization.

In general, today's holiday brings to gloomy thoughts. He demonstrated that our society is split - a deep, long time. No unity, which is so fond of saying high-ranking officials in Kiev, there is no trace. Society is divided into two large groups, which have different characters, different values, diametrically opposed views on the situation in the country and the further ways of its development. And no reason to think that soon the situation will change, no. Such a confrontation lasts for years, if not decades. The saddest thing is that none of the parties is not only ready to any compromise, but do not want their ideological opponents even hear. What's the social dialogue - here and monologues something all the time develop into a cross between hysteria and seizures. "They do not want to talk to each other, they want to kill each other" - so vividly, but very accurately summed up the situation of the participants of today's events.
Many are struggling to make the existing opposition to the conflict of generations - say, the whole thing in the "old man" who cling to "old" values. Here they will soon, old, naturally go - and some solid patriots will remain in the country. The point of view is as common as it is wrong. To doubt its truth, just look at the current column "Immortal regiment": in her young and middle-aged people are much more likely than the elderly. And if so - then the social conflict in our country destined to live long.
And one more frightening trend highlighted today's holiday: the radicalization of thoughts and moods will inevitably lead to radicalization ACTION - and this is no joke. As mentioned above, the current Victory Day was richer on the scene than the last. Especially revealing in this sense clashes with the "Afghans". Even last year, on a column of veterans of Afghanistan and the Interior Ministry is not something that the attack - were afraid to come near. As soon as in 2016, "the Afghan" column appeared on Admiralskaya, all their opponents as if the wind blew. This year everything is different - it is clear that the right-wing radicals and nationalists held a "correction of mistakes" and behave much more aggressively. And what will happen next? After all, the path of radicalization is not new and is well known today simply beat noses, tomorrow in the course is tear gas and smoke bombs, and the next day start to throw grenades and shoot. That is exactly what happens with an increase in opposition. And given how many weapons today uncontrollably walks in the hands of the population, this development is almost inevitable.
Today, the power of stubbornly trying to ignore the deep social conflict, making "a good face on a bad game," and expressing "unprecedented unity of all sectors of Ukrainian society" on the eve of the coming bezviza and "campaign in Europe." Nothing good like an ostrich policy can not lead - and, unfortunately, witness to all of us to become in the near future.

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author of course still the sloupok - radicalization goes back to 2013. Probably as long as he is not in the city similar happened, he preferred to remain in blissful ignorance.
Compromise is certainly not going to be that and provides the inevitable continuation of the civil war in Ukraine.

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This is not the agents of the Kremlin. They beat and kill each other it is the citizens of the former Ukrainian.

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Other photo and videos at link.

European Communist Parties honored the Great Antifascist Peoples Victory in Berlin - Speech by the KKE Politburo Member Giorgos Marinos

An important internationalist event was organized by the European Communist Initiative in Berlin on Sunday 7/5, with as its theme: «May 9, 72 years after the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples: we are inspired and continue the struggle against the distortion of history by the EU-capital. For the overthrow of the rotten capitalist system that creates crises, wars, fascism.”

The event was supported by the Party Organization of the KKE in Germany and Party Organization of the CP of Turkey in Germany. The programme of the event included interventions from the representatives of the CPs that participate in the “Initiative” and a concert with songs of the Red Army and other revolutionary songs.
The following 15 Parties participated in the event: Pole of Communist Revival in France, Communist Revolutionary Party of France, Communist Party of Greece, Workers’ Party of Ireland, Communist Party, Italy, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, Socialist Workers Party of Croatia, Belarusian Communist Party of Workers-Section of the CPSU, Communist Party of Norway, Hungarian Workers’ Party, Communist Party of Poland, Russian Communist Workers’ Party, Communist Party of Sweden, Communist Party of Turkey

A representative of the German CP also attended the event.

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Below is the speech by the representative of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and member of its Political Bureau, Giorgos Marinos:
Dear comrades,
From here, from Berlin, we salute the Victory of the Peoples against the fascist, imperialist monster in the 2nd World War, with the Soviet Union and the heroic Red Army as the protagonists.

The great country of socialism, the Soviet Union and the Red Army had the strength to repel the Nazi assault, to overcome the intrigues of US and British imperialism and contribute decisively to the victory of the peoples, liberating a large part of Europe, raising the red flag over the Reichstag, in the heart of Berlin on 30 April, leading to the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 9 of 1945.

It paid a heavy price for the victory. 20 million dead,10 million wounded and enormous material damage, in a war that cost the lives of 50 million people.

We honour the militant men and women who gave their lives, the thousands of martyrs of Dachau, Buchenwald and the other fascist concentration camps. We bow to the heroism of comrade Ernst Thalmann who was murdered in August 1944 by the Nazis.

We honour the liberation movements in every country, the struggle of the National Liberation Front (EAM) and the People’s Army (ELAS) in Greece.

The Communist and Workers Parties, and amongst them the KKE, acquired in very harsh conditions a leading role and emerged as the organizers, guides and heart and soul of the struggle of the peoples.

We are inspired and we intensify our struggles for the just cause of the working class, for socialism, we denounce anti-communism, we respond decisively to the anti-communist mechanisms of the European Union and the bourgeois governments, to every kind of bourgeois and opportunist historical revisionist, the dangerous organizations that equate communism with the fascist monster.

Whatever they do, they cannot diminish the role of the communists, of the class struggle, of the Soviet Union, of socialism in social progress. They cannot conceal that fascism is the child of capitalism and the struggle against it is consistent when it aims to abolish its root cause.

Comrades,

The 2nd World War, just as the First (1914-1918), was born from the womb of the capitalist system and was a result of the sharpening of the inter-imperialist contradictions and antagonisms for the redivision of the world, the control of the markets. This has historically marked the exploitative system which is guilty of hundreds of other local and regional wars.

The quest for profits and the inter-imperialist competition over the natural resources and the energy pipelines are to be found behind the imperialist wars that are under way today in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine. The interests of the monopolies are to be found behind the flashpoints in many regions of the planet and the danger of a more general military conflict.

The USA, NATO, the EU are ruthless enemies of the peoples.

At the NATO Summit on the 25th of May in Brussels, new, very dangerous plans will be set in motion. The inter-capitalist competition with Russia and China is sharpening. Concern is not enough. The task of the communists is to reinforce the struggle against imperialist war, the emancipation of the working class by the bourgeois classes in every country and the preparation of the peoples with the direction of concentrating forces to eradicate the causes of imperialist wars and interventions.

War is the continuation of the anti-people political line with military means, is defined by the interests and goals of the bourgeois classes. The character of war in our era is imperialist. The revolutionary war to abolish the exploitation of man by man is just.

With the interests of the working class and popular strata as its criteria, the struggle for the defense of the borders, territorial integrity, is a part of the struggle for the overthrow of capital, of capitalism that creates wars, crises, poverty, unemployment, refugees.

Comrades,

Many heroic events are a source of inspiration of communists in order to strengthen the antimonopoly-anticapitalist struggle but the Great October Socialist Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, stands out.

The historic mission of the working class was realized in the October Revolution. The great strength of the class struggle was highlighted as the motor force of social development and the importance and decisive character of the vanguard role of the communist party for the victory of the revolution and socialist construction was demonstrated.

The October Socialist Revolution demonstrated that the exploitative capitalist system is not invincible, that the working class with its allies can construct a society without the exploitation of man by man, that socialism can eradicate unemployment and safeguard the right to work for all, to increase free time, to provide free, high quality education, health, sports, culture, to satisfy the people’s needs and to activate the people’s strength in the construction of the new society.

The counterrevolutions have painful consequences for the peoples.

The temporary defeat teaches us how dangerous the opportunist deviations and violations of the laws of socialist construction. The political power of the working class, the socialization of the means of production, central scientific planning and workers’-social control are absolute prerequisites for the construction of the new society.

The class struggle continues, historical progress does not stop.

Capitalism is in its highest, final stage. It has decayed and the character of our era expresses the necessity of the passage from the exploitative system to a superior system, socialism-communism, on the basis of the irrefutable conclusion that the material preconditions have matured for the new socialist organization of production and society.

The intermediate, the transitional stages, the so-called left governments operate within the framework of capitalism and perpetuate the power of the monopolies, the exploitation of the working class. Capitalism cannot be humanized.

Comrades,

The European Communist Initiative has spread its wings. Last year it organized the Anti-NATO event in Warsaw, this year we in Berlin we honour the Anti-fascist victory of the peoples and the forces of the “Communist Initiative” will take part in the mobilizations against the NATO Summit in Brussels. We combine these important events with the stable annual meetings, the regular and precise interventions on the problems of the workers and youth, more general serious political issues, supporting, developing, the ideological struggle against the bourgeois classes, the exploitative capitalist system, the EU, the inter-state imperialist union in Europe.

We will continue with this experience to fight against the difficulties, to contribute more to the development of the class struggle, to weaken opportunism, strengthening the efforts for the unity and revolutionary regroupment of the communist movement, the struggle for socialism.