In a statement posted on the Party's social media pages on Sunday 24 August, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) condemns the blatant falsification of history by the European Union, on the occasion of the so-called "Black Ribbon Day", which is observed annually on 23 August as a "Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes".
The Communist Party stresses out:
"The Communist Party categorically condemns this shameless and cynical falsification of history which denigrates, downplays and denies the heroic role of the Soviet Union and its peoples.
We reject the policy of the unelected EU bureaucrats and their sham ‘parliament’ which despicably attempts to conflate the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, Socialism-Communism and Fascism.
We also recognise the great importance of the fight against historical revisionism, especially in regard to the Soviet Union’s enormous sacrifice during World War II where the Soviet people, their Red Army and communist partisans lost 27 million citizens in the momentous struggle against the fascist hordes.
This attempted rewriting of history goes as far as counting many of those who died defending the Soviet Union, and also Nazis and their collaborators, as ‘victims of Communism’.
Those responsible and those who repeat these lies against those who sacrificed all to liberate Europe should be ashamed.
Nazi Germany started the Holocaust. The Soviet Union ended it.
By contrast, the EU and western powers, which never denazified, are today more than happy to fund and arm open neo-Nazis to fight their proxy war in Ukraine.
It is essential that we oppose the deliberate falsification of history within our media, politics and education systems.
We fight to defend the historical truth of WWII and the USSR and for a full understanding and analysis of not only the shortcomings and mistakes, but the enormous struggles, overcome against all odds, and the undeniably groundbreaking successes of the world’s first socialist state.
We will not submit to the falsification of the proud history of our movement. We embrace the great and momentous achievements that Communists have made around the world, including the defeat of Nazi fascism, and which continue to be made to this very day."
We reject the policy of the unelected EU bureaucrats and their sham ‘parliament’ which despicably attempts to conflate the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, Socialism-Communism and Fascism.
We also recognise the great importance of the fight against historical revisionism, especially in regard to the Soviet Union’s enormous sacrifice during World War II where the Soviet people, their Red Army and communist partisans lost 27 million citizens in the momentous struggle against the fascist hordes.
This attempted rewriting of history goes as far as counting many of those who died defending the Soviet Union, and also Nazis and their collaborators, as ‘victims of Communism’.
Those responsible and those who repeat these lies against those who sacrificed all to liberate Europe should be ashamed.
Nazi Germany started the Holocaust. The Soviet Union ended it.
By contrast, the EU and western powers, which never denazified, are today more than happy to fund and arm open neo-Nazis to fight their proxy war in Ukraine.
It is essential that we oppose the deliberate falsification of history within our media, politics and education systems.
We fight to defend the historical truth of WWII and the USSR and for a full understanding and analysis of not only the shortcomings and mistakes, but the enormous struggles, overcome against all odds, and the undeniably groundbreaking successes of the world’s first socialist state.
We will not submit to the falsification of the proud history of our movement. We embrace the great and momentous achievements that Communists have made around the world, including the defeat of Nazi fascism, and which continue to be made to this very day."
