Dear comrades,

We denounce anti-communism, we struggle against the anti-communist positions of the EU and the anti-historical equation of the socialism’s contribution with the monstrosity of fascism at the International Meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties, as well as at the other meetings of the CPs.

We highlight the irreplaceable contribution of the Soviet Union to the struggle of the peoples and we refer to the 20 million dead which it gave to defeat Nazism.

We expose the dangerous rationale of the “two extremes” and the relevant framework of the EU, as well as of the bourgeois governments, a framework that has led to the persecution and banning of Communist Parties.

We all understand that the struggle against anti-communism and against the distortion of the historical contribution of socialism is a very serious task and that the anti-communist stance must be decisively denounced.

Consequently, we want to inform you that recently the MEP Helmut Scholz, a cadre of the German Left party “Die Linke”, a member of the presidium of the European Left Party (ELP), organized in the European Parliament on the 12th and 13th of November a meeting with the title: “I traveled to your country as a guest – German opponents of Hitler as victims of Stalinist terror: Family histories 1933-1956”.

As the EU Parliamentary Group of the KKE denounced: “This is a wretched attempt to present German anti-Nazis as victims of the Soviet workers’ state, an even more sordid version of the official political line of the EU that equates fascism-Nazism with communism and promotes the “theory of the two extremes”. It is an insult to the thousands of German communists and other anti-fascists who resisted, paying the price with their own lives, against the Hitlerite barbarity. A blatant insult to the millions of Soviet people, communists and militants of the USSR and in all the countries of Europe, who gave their lives to crush the fascist atrocity. A vulgar slander at the expense of the first workers’ state in the history of humanity, at the expense of the unprecedented gains achieved by the workers under Socialism.”

We assess that this issue is very serious and exposes the dangerous role of opportunism as a vehicle for the promotion of the bourgeois ideology and political line, as a force that defends and disseminates the anti-communist positions of the European Union.

The communist men and women are obliged to provide a decisive response.

15.11.2013

International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE