KKE: 80 years since the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples - Its conclusions and significance today

Opening speech by Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), at the hybrid meeting of the European Communist Action, held in Berlin on 9 May 2025 under the subject “80 years since the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples.  Its conclusions and significance today”:

Dear comrades,

European Parliament: The shameful and unhistorical equation of Communism with Nazism shall not pass!

By Nikos Mottas

A new provocative attempt to equate communism with Nazism and take measures against communist symbols took place in the European Parliament, “Rizospastis” newspaper has reported. Five MEPs of the European People's Party (EPP) asked the Commission to ban the hammer and sickle - which they shamelessly equate with the Nazi swastika (!) - just a few days after the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples, led by the Soviet Union and the Red Army.

KKE's General Secretary concludes visit to Germany

KKE event in Berlin

Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) concluded his visit to Germany on Sunday 11/5 with a speech in Stuttgart. 

 

The event, organized by the Communist Youth (KNE) organization, was held at Clara Zetkin Haus and was attended by numerous workers, members, supporters and friends of the Party.  

 

European Communist Action: 80 years since the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples

Joint Statement of the Parties participating in the European Communist Action on the 80th anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples:

"May 9, 1945 marks 80 years since the Great Anti-Fascist Victory when Nazi Germany surrendered and the peoples of the world, with the decisive role of the Red Army and the Soviet Union under the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) as the organizer and inspirer of this struggle, brought fascism to its knees across Europe. 

80th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory: When the Communists saved humanity from the Nazi monster

By Nikos Mottas

“Anyone who loves freedom, owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid”. This phrase of Ernest Hemingway encompasses the whole symbolism of the 9th May 1945; the day of the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples.

80 years have passed since the day when the red flag with the sickle and hammer raised over Reichstag, in Berlin, thus marking the triumph of the Red Army and the Soviet Union over the monster of Nazism-Fascism.