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2nd May 2005, 18:40
The West Is Rewriting History
By IRINA MALENKO
The recent ceremonies to mark the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by the Soviet Red Army brought into sharp focus the nature of the Nazi genocide war machine. And as the people of Europe were preparing to mark this important event, we saw the offspring of British Royalty ruling class holding a party in which one of these infantile lay-abouts dressed up as a Nazi, wearing a swastika armband. Well, that sort of politics runs in that particular family.
Then, we had the German neo-Nazis running amok in Leipzig, Germany, while other neo-Nazis walked out in protest at the minute’s silence for those who died in the death camps. These actions brought revulsion and a demand that the wearing of Nazi Swastika armbands be made illegal.
Not to be outdone, the belly-crawling cronies of US imperialism in the European Parliament from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia – demanded that the proposed ban be extended to cover all Communist symbols as well. It is remarkable that all of these countries either had strong fascist governments before the Second World War and greatly admired Hitler, or had very strong collaborationist forces that fought alongside the Nazis in fascism’s efforts to crush the Bolsheviks, the Red Army and smash the Soviet Union.
In May of this year, we will mark the 60th Anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe. Of course Western TV screens will be full of pictures of old films showing how the British and the Yanks really beat Hitler themselves. These are nothing but Hollywood dream-factory productions. Yes, the Western Allies eventually opened up the Second Front, but only when it was clear that the Soviet Union was not going to collapse. But the fact was that it was defeating German fascism itself, with great human losses and suffering.
Of course the West will have a string of Second World War veterans and experts being paraded at meetings, on TV screens, in the press, in order to play down the Soviet Union and the struggles on the Eastern Front. They will of course equate Hitler with Stalin as evil twins, with twin-ideologies. Much will be said about the German-Soviet Pact, but nothing about the Soviet-Czechoslovak agreement, nor, about the efforts of the Soviets to sign an anti-fascist pact with the British, which was turned down flat.
Once the Soviet Union and Stalin could not secure political agreement with the British and the French, in relation to the threat of fascism that the Western powers were building up and agitating Hitler to invade the USSR – the military priorities became dominant for the Soviet Union. That was the reason for the pact between the Soviet Union and Germany: it bought the necessary military time for the Soviet government to prepare for the attack, which Stalin foresaw coming.
To this day, together with all the myths perpetrated by the capitalist ruling class of Eastern Europe in order to cover their own tracks and the extent of their collaboration with the Nazis, the Soviet-German Pact has been dragged up over and over again. No doubt, the ultra-left will also carry forward these myths in their never-ending search for the "Never, never land" of the ideal socialism, the ideal revolution. That is all that it is, removed from the factual material world!
The ruling class might ban the symbol of the hammer and sickle, or the red flag, or posters of working-class heroes – but they will never bury the struggle for social justice, for national liberation, or for peace and socialism.
They can erase inconvenient facts from the history books, but they cannot ever erase the debt of gratitude the whole world owes the Soviet Union, its people and the Red Army!
The Soviet Union lost over 26,000,000 people in the Great Patriotic War of the total 50,000,000 people that were killed during the Second World War!
http://www.northstarcompass.org
By IRINA MALENKO
The recent ceremonies to mark the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by the Soviet Red Army brought into sharp focus the nature of the Nazi genocide war machine. And as the people of Europe were preparing to mark this important event, we saw the offspring of British Royalty ruling class holding a party in which one of these infantile lay-abouts dressed up as a Nazi, wearing a swastika armband. Well, that sort of politics runs in that particular family.
Then, we had the German neo-Nazis running amok in Leipzig, Germany, while other neo-Nazis walked out in protest at the minute’s silence for those who died in the death camps. These actions brought revulsion and a demand that the wearing of Nazi Swastika armbands be made illegal.
Not to be outdone, the belly-crawling cronies of US imperialism in the European Parliament from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia – demanded that the proposed ban be extended to cover all Communist symbols as well. It is remarkable that all of these countries either had strong fascist governments before the Second World War and greatly admired Hitler, or had very strong collaborationist forces that fought alongside the Nazis in fascism’s efforts to crush the Bolsheviks, the Red Army and smash the Soviet Union.
In May of this year, we will mark the 60th Anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe. Of course Western TV screens will be full of pictures of old films showing how the British and the Yanks really beat Hitler themselves. These are nothing but Hollywood dream-factory productions. Yes, the Western Allies eventually opened up the Second Front, but only when it was clear that the Soviet Union was not going to collapse. But the fact was that it was defeating German fascism itself, with great human losses and suffering.
Of course the West will have a string of Second World War veterans and experts being paraded at meetings, on TV screens, in the press, in order to play down the Soviet Union and the struggles on the Eastern Front. They will of course equate Hitler with Stalin as evil twins, with twin-ideologies. Much will be said about the German-Soviet Pact, but nothing about the Soviet-Czechoslovak agreement, nor, about the efforts of the Soviets to sign an anti-fascist pact with the British, which was turned down flat.
Once the Soviet Union and Stalin could not secure political agreement with the British and the French, in relation to the threat of fascism that the Western powers were building up and agitating Hitler to invade the USSR – the military priorities became dominant for the Soviet Union. That was the reason for the pact between the Soviet Union and Germany: it bought the necessary military time for the Soviet government to prepare for the attack, which Stalin foresaw coming.
To this day, together with all the myths perpetrated by the capitalist ruling class of Eastern Europe in order to cover their own tracks and the extent of their collaboration with the Nazis, the Soviet-German Pact has been dragged up over and over again. No doubt, the ultra-left will also carry forward these myths in their never-ending search for the "Never, never land" of the ideal socialism, the ideal revolution. That is all that it is, removed from the factual material world!
The ruling class might ban the symbol of the hammer and sickle, or the red flag, or posters of working-class heroes – but they will never bury the struggle for social justice, for national liberation, or for peace and socialism.
They can erase inconvenient facts from the history books, but they cannot ever erase the debt of gratitude the whole world owes the Soviet Union, its people and the Red Army!
The Soviet Union lost over 26,000,000 people in the Great Patriotic War of the total 50,000,000 people that were killed during the Second World War!
http://www.northstarcompass.org