The conflict in Eastern Ukraine did not come as a surprise to the
KKE. It marked the ignition of a confrontation that had long been in the
making — methodically prepared in the pressure cooker of clashing
powerful interests — and it is a direct consequence of the capitalist
restoration that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is worth
recalling that at the time, the entire spectrum of Greece’s political
establishment, from the far right to the so-called “renewed Left” —
except the KKE — was proclaiming that “the avenues of peace and
prosperity” were opening up for the peoples.

