Once again, on 23 August, the European Union rolls out its anti-communist falsification of history, attempting the obscene equation of communism — the force that stood at the forefront of the struggle against fascism — with the Nazi monster itself. Yet history is stubborn, and the blood of those who fought and died against fascism cannot be erased by EU resolutions and manufactured “days of remembrance.”
The 200 of Kaisariani were 200 imprisoned Greek communists executed by the Nazi German occupation forces at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in Athens on 1 May 1944, in retaliation for an ELAS partisan attack that killed German General Franz Krech. Most had already endured years of imprisonment, first under the pre-war Greek dictatorship and subsequently under the occupation authorities. In February 2026, previously unknown photographs documenting their final moments and execution surfaced publicly for the first time, more than eight decades after the massacre; thirteen photographs connected with the execution were subsequently acquired by the Greek state as part of the Hermann Heuer Collection.
Statement by the EU Parliament Group of the KKE
In a statement published in 902 portal, European Parliamentary Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses:
“For yet another year, the EU and the European Commission are serving up the ahistorical fabrication that equates fascism with communism, designating 23 August as the ‘European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes’, in an attempt to impose an ‘anniversary’ to accompany their dozens of anti-communist and reactionary myths.
Naturally, this ahistorical and provocative ‘commemoration’ is being exploited even more intensively today in order to whitewash the EU and portray its supposed ‘values’ as serving peace and the dignity of the peoples, at the very moment when the EU is taking a leading role in imperialist war fronts and escalating its offensive against the peoples of its member states.
This is, of course, the very same EU whose Commission, last May, provocatively demanded that the KKE MEPs withdraw their question concerning the 200 communist heroes of Kaisariani, declaring that ‘historical narratives and German war reparations do not fall within the Commission’s competence’.
This is the rotten EU that the bourgeois staffs and parties seek to embellish at every opportunity. On the one hand, it misses no opportunity to falsify historical truth and pour out its anti-communist poison; on the other, it declares itself ‘not competent’ when historical evidence exposes its own violation of historical truth and shatters the unacceptable attempt to equate communism with the monster of fascism — that is, to equate the executed communists with their Nazi executioners.
As for its claims that the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany (Molotov–Ribbentrop) was responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War — with 23 August chosen because it was the date on which the pact was signed — the EU and the bourgeois staffs conveniently forget the Munich Agreement between Nazi Germany, Britain, France and Italy, which in practice facilitated Hitler’s plans, above all his plans for an attack against the USSR.
They seek by every means to obscure the fact that the causes that led to the Second World War lay in the rivalries between capitalist states over the division of markets and spheres of influence, and over the routes for the transport of commodities and energy. They seek to obscure the fact that the USSR bore the main burden of the struggle against fascism and Nazism, paying an enormous price in blood, with more than 25 million dead and more than 10 million disabled and wounded; that the Red Flag bearing the hammer and sickle was triumphantly raised over the Reichstag by the Red Army.
At the same time, the popular national liberation movements, with communists at their forefront, made a decisive contribution to the defeat of fascism and Nazism. They put into practice what the ‘democratic’ capitalist governments had refused to do for three years: they opened a second front against Nazi Germany and its allies in the very heart of occupied Europe.
But history cannot be erased. These events have been written in indelible ink in the consciousness of the peoples, no matter how much poison is poured out by the EU, the capitalists and their apologists, whose aim is to impose new and heavy sacrifices on the peoples so that the monopolies can secure guaranteed profits from the slaughterhouses of war.
The ‘anxiety’ of the EU, governments and capital, expressed through their ahistorical calls for the peoples to rally behind their rotten ‘values’ — values that bring imperialist war, a labour Middle Ages, ‘costed’ impoverishment and the banning of Communist Parties in EU member states — demonstrates precisely that the peoples can choose the road of confrontation and, through their struggle, overthrow capitalist barbarism and build a society ‘worthy of people and their dreams’: socialism-communism.”