On the Plundering of the Soviet Legacy
At present, two main tactics are being employed by the bourgeois classes in the territories of the former Soviet Union against the communist movement:
The second concerns the manipulation of the communist movement and the appropriation of Soviet history in order to serve the contemporary aims of the bourgeois classes, as is happening in Russia and Belarus.
The distortion of Soviet history is characteristic of both cases. This can be seen, for example, in the Goebbels-style propaganda surrounding the so-called “Holodomor” in Ukraine, or, conversely, in the portrayal of Lenin by the ideological apparatuses of the contemporary Russian bourgeoisie as the “destroyer” of the great Russian Empire, juxtaposed with Stalin, who is falsely presented as a “patriot,” stripped of his revolutionary ideology.
The KKE has repeatedly denounced and condemned the persecution of communists and Communist Parties, as well as anti-communism and anti-Sovietism in all their forms of bourgeois distortion. Particular attention, however, must be drawn to the disgraceful attempts to appropriate and plunder the history of the USSR and the communist movement. Such is the case with the newly emerging “SOVINTERN,” which seeks to kill two birds with one stone by invoking both the Soviet Union and the Comintern, that is, the Communist International.
Unraveling the “SOVINTERN” Project
“SOVINTERN” presents itself as an “International Union of Contemporary Left Forces of the World,” founded in Moscow on April 25–29, 2026, under the auspices of the centre-left, social democratic party “A Just Russia,” which is represented in the Russian parliament (State Duma), having received 7.5% of the vote and holding 28 out of 450 seats.
This party has also absorbed extreme nationalist elements, such as Zakhar Prilepin, who previously participated in the so-called “National Bolshevik Party,” which attempted even in its symbols and slogans to imitate Hitler’s National Socialist Party, adopting the slogan: “Russia is everything; all else is nothing!”
“A Just Russia” supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was therefore expelled from the Socialist International, of which it had been a member prior to 2022. Earlier, in 2014, it had already received a reprimand from this international social democratic organisation after deputies from “A Just Russia” submitted amendments to abortion legislation proposing, among other things, that a woman should only be permitted to have an abortion with the consent of her husband. Such “progress” indeed.
Even earlier, in 2007, the party’s leader, Sergey Mironov, closely following Putin’s line, attacked the Bolsheviks, claiming that they had imposed “totalitarian control over the people’s thinking.”
It is also worth recalling that in 2011 Vladislav Surkov, former aide to the Russian President and former deputy prime minister, publicly stated that “A Just Russia” had been created in order to manipulate potential popular reactions. Indeed, throughout all these years, “A Just Russia” has fanatically supported every Kremlin policy and distinguished itself through its support for anti-popular legislation, including laws aimed at silencing every oppositional voice in Russia.
Finally, in 2026 “A Just Russia” joined the so-called “World Anti-Imperialist Platform” (WAP), known for its anti-KKE role, signing the relevant declaration.
Fool’s Gold
Representatives of “SOVINTERN” claim that 100 communist and left-wing parties are participating, yet no such list has been published. From the information available, one can identify certain communist parties already participating in the WAP, such as the so-called American Communist Party.
This is, in reality, a party of Trump supporters dressed in communist “garb,” which in the latest U.S. presidential elections supported the supposedly “peace-loving” Trump. This is hardly accidental, considering that one of the WAP’s theoreticians recently called on communists to engage in “tactical cooperation” with Trump against the supporters of globalisation.
The contradictions do not end there. From Turkey, for example, the party “Vatan” (“Homeland”) participates in the “International Union of Contemporary Left Forces of the World.” This is a nationalist party characterised by an opportunistic and toothless anti-Americanism, promoting the interests of the bourgeois classes of the Eurasian imperialist axis (China and Russia), closely linked to sections of Turkey’s military establishment.
“Vatan” not only supports the doctrine of the so-called “Blue Homeland,” through which the Turkish bourgeoisie expresses its aggressive ambitions westward by challenging the sovereign rights of Greece and Cyprus, but is among its most fervent advocates. The two principal theorists of the “Blue Homeland” doctrine, retired admirals Cem Gürdeniz — who coined the term in 2006 — and Cihat Yaycı, maintain close ties with the ideological milieu of “Vatan.” Gürdeniz regularly contributed articles to the party newspaper, Aydinlik.
Naturally, from Greece there also participates a one-man theoretical circle, as well as the social democratic “Delphi Initiative,” while one of its representatives is a businessman who, in other contexts, presents himself as the CEO of an investment company connected to the “South European Pipeline.”
There is little point in continuing further. However, it is useful to underline that the forces of opportunism and reformism — the apologists of various forms of bourgeois management and of the subordination of workers and youth to the aims of one or another bourgeois class — will undoubtedly continue their harmful activity, exploiting as well the appropriation of the history of the international workers’ and popular movement.
The need therefore becomes even more urgent to strengthen the ideological and political front both against anti-communism and the repression of workers’ and popular struggles, and against those who detach the struggle against war and fascism from the struggle against the capitalism that gives rise to them.
The counterfeit “anti-imperialism” and “anti-fascism,” along with the various corresponding “formations” used by bourgeois and opportunist forces to trap peoples within their strategic designs, must be rejected.
Against this situation, and under the adverse conditions created by the internationally negative balance of forces, the KKE and other Communist Parties continue to struggle consistently for the revolutionary independence of the International Communist Movement from bourgeois forces and interests, and for its regroupment on a Marxist–Leninist basis, against imperialist war, the bourgeois classes, capitalist exploitation, and anti-communism.
