Monday, May 10, 2010

Red army's Victory: Greatest symbol of power of resistance and revolutionary struggle


Excerpts from speech by Fidel Castro Ruz, May 8, 1975

"Fascism arises in the world just after the October Revolution, fascism arises in the world as a tool against Marxism-Leninism.

Were the capitalist countries and the imperialist countries that created the conditions for the emergence of fascism in the world, and the campaign of the fascists, from which emerged in Europe, was heading for anti-communism, the extermination of the Communists and to the destruction of the Soviet Union.

Once defeated the first intervention against the October Revolution, began to emerge with the brutal force political current in Europe. Fascism was the ultimate expression of bourgeois and imperialist reactionary thought, and since Hitler came to public arena declared their intention to attack one day to the Soviet Union proclaimed its racist doctrines and ideas about the extermination of entire peoples, of the enslavement of tens of millions of men and conquest of new territories.

It must be said that all mankind paid dearly for this political phenomenon, that all mankind paid dearly for this travesty of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, because even the capitalist countries, at a given time, were attacked by fascism.

We all remember those tragic years that preceded the war, we all remember the policy of conciliation with the fascism of the capitalist countries, we all remember the criminal division of Czechoslovakia, which was broken up and distributed to satisfy the expansionist ambitions of fascism, the capitalist governments shamefully giving in meet the demands of Hitler.

In essence, the policy of those powers is poised to launch fascism against the Soviet Union, to push Hitler's hordes to Russia.

We all remember how at that time began the war by invading Poland, the reactionary government of then chose the risks of isolation and aggression to coordinate their defense with the Soviet Union.

We all remember how, after the invasion of Poland, began the invasion of Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, Denmark. And remember too how the armies of capitalist countries virtually collapsed without resistance. Within days, in some cases and in others a matter of weeks, one after the other nations were defeated.

The news that the tanks were in the rear and aerial bombardments, completely demoralized the bourgeois armies, who were unable to resist Hitler's aggression. And when the fascists had virtually dominated Europe, with all the resources and technology of the European economy, began in June 1941, the cowardly and treacherous attack against the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union had endeavored to preserve peace, the Soviet Union had attempted to unite all anti-fascist forces in Europe, the Soviet Union got tired of constantly preach the need to stop fascism. But it hit the blindness and deafness of the leaders of the capitalist countries.

What happened, however, when the invasion of the Soviet Union? All know the saga of Brest-Litovsk, in that strength for weeks when Nazi troops were already deep in his rear, resisted heroically, with a handful of men, the charge of an entire division.

The Soviet people are not demoralized, Soviet soldiers did not lose even when tanks and enemy troops were tens of kilometers in the rear!

Hitler's armies were accustomed to combat reactionary social systems, social systems against capitalists, against bourgeois armies. And when there is aggression against the Soviet Union meet for the first time with a different type of army with a different type of soldier, with a type of people moved by other motives, and are from the first moment fierce resistance : Soviet soldiers died defending their positions!

The Soviet soldiers refused to surrender, Soviet troops were not ever up! And when they were surrounded, and again attacked and fought back to try to get through. And despite the tremendous blows dealt the treachery of the enemy in the early days of the war and in the early months, at no time this people and this army is demoralized.

The example of the Soviet Union, and the epic of its Great Patriotic War, show, first and foremost, the superiority of the socialist system, the strength of the socialist system and the strength of the Marxist-Leninist ideas!

Nazi troops, accustomed to walk victorious in Europe, proud of his victories, convinced of the invincibility of blitzkrieg tactics, also imagined that the Soviet Union would collapse, Leningrad and Moscow would be taken within weeks, the war Lightning would win there too. And yet, everywhere met fierce resistance. It even came to Leningrad, but failed to take the city of Lenin. And the people of Leningrad endured the fascist siege for 900 days!

If we analyze the history of all wars, will be very difficult to find a city that has withstood a siege of 900 days. Leningrad died of cold and starvation, collapsed on the streets constantly bombarded by artillery fascist but men and women of Leningrad did not surrender!

Fascist troops approached Moscow with the bulk of their forces ... but Moscow could not be taken, Moscow did not give up, resisted Moscow, and not only resisted but counterattacked and took the offensive.

They moved the second year of the war on Stalingrad considerable fascist forces, and came to Stalingrad, and even took a part of Stalingrad. But Soviet troops, a few hundred meters between the city and the river, resisted. And there fought the greatest battle in the history of wars! ...

Again, in the third year of war, the fascists tried to take the initiative and powerful forces met again toward Moscow. And he pounds the famous Battle of Kursk Arch, which was one of the fiercest fighting of the war, in which again the fascist troops crash continues the heroic resistance of the Soviet soldiers.

And then, when the Soviet army takes the offensive, when it was finally time to settle accounts, it starts moving towards the territory of the fascists. And write immortal and glorious pages in projecting the heroism of the soldier, the patriotism of the people, the superiority of the technique and, above all, the superiority of revolutionary principles.

Soviet troops did not stop until the very heart of fascist Germany, until the day that the top of the Reichstag brought the glorious and victorious banner of the Soviet people! ...

How could the Soviet people react, recover from the initial shock of more than 5 million soldiers and the most powerful war machine aggressively until then had known the world? How could those people in the midst of this attack, despite the depth of the advance of enemy troops, despite the enormous material and human losses, recover? For if great was the feat of the soldiers was unusually large feat of all people.

This is explained primarily by the presence of a seasoned Party: the Party of Lenin, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, organizer of the revolution, construction organizer, organizer of the people and armed forces, organizer defending the socialist homeland.

... The fact remains, historical, indisputable is that precisely the people and the Soviet army who carried the main burden and decisive in the defeat of fascism. It was the Soviet people who paid the higher price, and that made the main contribution to the victory. Without that contribution would have been absolutely impossible to defeat fascism. You can not compare the participation of any other country to supply the Soviet ...

What would have been the fate of humanity? What would have been for all the peoples of the world? What would have meant the absence of such a force that shield? If humanity did not meet again the horrors of a world war, this is due to the policy of peace and the might of the Soviet Union.

The overthrow of fascism created new conditions for everyone. Before the Second World War, if we looked at the maps of Africa, we were that there was not a free people throughout the African continent, if we looked to Asia, we saw that there were few who were not colonized peoples on that continent; if we looked to Latin America, we saw absolutely dominated by U.S. imperialism. A few powers had divided the world, enslaved and exploited.

Because when the Soviets fought and died in Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Berlin, were struggling and were dying for us too! His heroes are therefore also our heroes. Its martyrs are our martyrs. His blood is our blood! ...

Forwards victoriously the cause of revolution and socialism, the cause of Marx, Engels and Lenin, Ho Chi Minh cause, the cause of Martí and Maceo, Camilo and Che, the revolutionary cause of all the Because of the Marxist-Leninists, the cause of socialism, the fair cause of communism. And the extraordinary contribution that the Soviet people has given to this cause of humanity, the peoples of the world will be eternally grateful! "

65 years after - never again fascism, never again war!


On the morning of May 9 of 1945, 65 years ago, mankind woke up free from nazifascism after the brave Soviet soldiers finally entered Berlin and defeated the hideous Nazi regime. Nevertheless, this victory could only be achieved after a war of suffering for all mankind and destruction of most of Europe, particularly the Eastern side, in which the troops of Nazi and Fascist regimes destroyed and killed all in its way until they were stopped.On this 65th anniversary of the peoples’ victory against Nazifascism we remind the main actor of this victory that freed mankind: the people. It was the popular resistance organized against fascist imperialist offense that defeated fascism. We remind particularly the contribution of the Soviet people, who had to face more than 2/3 of the battlefronts. It is upon that victory, essentially conquered by youngsters, that WFDY was built to ensure that the youth would never again live under fascism and would never have to face war again.

However, 65 years after the peoples’ victory over fascism the total freedom is still not here. As 65 years ago also today the dominant classes are using the crisis of capitalism to directly attack the workers’ rights, to promote xenophobia and racism against immigrants and to attack the freedom and democratic rights attempting to criminalize all those who struggle for an alternative to this obsolete capitalist system. It is remarkable how now, as in that period, the communists, anti-imperialist and progressive forces are always the firsts to be chased.
Nowadays the people of Palestine suffer the same slaughter, persecution and humiliation that Jews faced from the fascist regimes that chased them, enslaved them and killed them in their concentration camps that were not that different from the authentic ghettos that the blockade policy of Israel is spreading throughout the West Bank, as the siege done together with Egypt and USA to the Palestinian land of Gaza.

Even 65 years after the use of the nuclear bombs against people, following the limitless ambition of power of USA against a already surrendered Japan, the race for massive destruction, high technology and nuclear weapons continues and is lead by the USA, whose leading position as detainer of the biggest amount of nuclear weapons states for itself as a fact against all sorts of hypocrisies made by its administration.

On this occasion, WFDY calls upon all its member and friendly organizations to rally their efforts and spread throughout the world the criminal nature of the fascist regimes as upper stages of the not less criminal nature of imperialism and capitalism. For the full recognition of the historical facts and its inclusion in school books, for the end of all sorts of discriminations and xenophobia, for freedom, democracy, social justice and peace, let us join our voices as one and stand up to conquer this world forever free of injustice, war, destruction, hunger and illness.

Never again fascism, never again war - let’s defeat imperialism!

The Soviet Union, the Soviet people, the Communists, Stalin not only defeated Nazism - they save civilization

Speech by President of the Central Committee of the Communist Party GA Zyuganov at a meeting on May 9 in Moscow

According to news reports, about 100,000 people took part in the festivities organized by the Communist Party and the people's patriotic forces in Moscow.
The column under the red banners and portraits of Lenin, Stalin and the commanders of the Victory began moving from Pushkin Square. Zyuganov, the leaders of the CPRF Central Committee, the State Duma deputies. From the speakers sounded songs of the Great Patriotic War.

"Stalin, Rodina, Victory!" - Chanted the marchers. Above the column of the slogans: "All power - the Soviets", "NATO in the Red Square - the defeat of Russia."

Meeting on the 65 th anniversary of the Victory, was held on Lubyanka Square. During the entire width of the rostrum - the banner: "The victory of fascism, we could overcome capitalism!"

The rally was inaugurated on the execution of the song "Holy War". Then the participants of the rally, the Chairman of the CC CPRF GA Zyuganov.

Addressed a crowd of Communist leader. Today we celebrate not just a round figure, we pay tribute to the great historic feat of the Soviet country and its people, who went off to war the best sons and daughters and won this victory. Today we pay tribute to the great feat of Communists, rallied the people. Every second Communist lay on the battlefield. Today we celebrate the triumph of the great Soviet power, which proved stronger than all of Hitler's hordes. This is a celebration of spirit and strength of

mind. Under the Moscow and Stalingrad, in the Orel-Kursk and near Berlin, we were fighting not just against the Nazis, we fought against those who tried to enslave the entire world.

Our victory is priceless - stressed GA Zyuganov - because we have saved not only himself, the great Russian people and all our sister nations, we have saved all of Europe.


"Fascists, by breaking our open spaces, - continued the leader of the Communist Party - the first time in history set the task not merely to defeat the Soviet country, but, in essence, to destroy the great Russian people and tear the historic brotherhood of 130 nations and nationalities that we have gathered under its banner . Our country - the Soviet Union, the Communist Party, Generalissimo Stalin not only defeated, they saved civilization, and this historic feat of our people will remain for centuries.

But no sooner die down victory volleys - stressed GA Zyuganov - as again went to war against us our former "allies". They re-united against the Soviet Union. Listen to what he wrote in a 45-meter-known spy, Dulles: "We will prove that the Soviet Union - is as much a villain as Nazi Germany. We will do everything to loggerheads peoples inhabiting the Soviet Union.

Today, before the great memory of the fallen heroes, I want to remind you the real story, which strongly hide the current Russian authorities - said the leader of the Communists. - - Let's see how fought our "allies". A few months after the outbreak of WWII, the British were on the verge of surrender. And they saved only by a miracle.

As for France, she gave Hitler for 44 days. In fact, surrendered without a fight in Paris and the French president and prime minister after the war, the Supreme Court sentenced him to death.

- I appeal to young people - said GA Zyuganov: Do you have something to be proud of. You live in a unique, wonderful country. smashed the Teutonic Knights at Lake Chud, we coped with the Horde on the Kulikovo field, we have divided the French at Borodino, we kicked the Entente during the Civil War and saved the world from the fascist plague.

Today, when talking about the price of victory, I want to remind you: the Americans have lost 260,000, they are not accustomed to die for their country.

The British lost 380,000.

We have lost almost 27 million, of which 17 million - Russian.

In the First World War and the civil we lost 10 million people. And the current "reforms" that have become the destruction of the country, cost us 15 million, of which 14 million Russian. Thus, our country has lost almost 50 million over a hundred years. But we live under, and must look towards the future. To do this, we have everything you need.

- Said the leader of the Communist Party. - - We are a thousand years of history 700 years spent in battles and campaigns, otbivshis of all villains. But today we live in another country. The Great Victory was betrayed by the Gorbachev-Yeltsin clique of. The Great Victory was torn to pieces, when the Soviet Union was divided into parts of new vampires, greedily for power and property.

Today we watched a wonderful parade, which showcased the remnants of Soviet military power. And I told the gentlemen of the "United Russia": all 127 planes and helicopters that flew over Red Square - a product of the USSR, are products of the Soviet Union, from you there is not even paint! All the equipment, which was the cobblestones of Red Square - a product of the great Soviet era!

We have something to be proud of - continued GA Zyuganov - we have with you a great story. the banners of the victorious soldiers had written: "For us, the Soviet Motherland!" We will return the Soviet regime, we will do everything to the 70 anniversary of the victory mark in the revival of the country - our new Union!

I am very pleased - said the head of the Communist Party - that to us for the holiday arrived and the president of Ukraine, and the president of Belarus.

We must strengthen the relationship of the Slavic peoples of the kernel, without which there can be no future nor the Russian nor the Ukrainians, or the Belarusians. Our common future can be only when we are faithful to the Banner of Victory, the Soviet government.

And today, when our victory is a terrible rebound, we should remember Stalin's famous order: "Not one step back!"

His performance as leader of the Communist Party concluded its appeal to those who care about the fate of the Fatherland:

"Long live the young, true to the banner of Victory!

Long live the working class, farmers, engineers and intellectuals - the main ridge of the invincibility of our country!

Long live the great Generalissimo Stalin!

Long live the people, the winner!

Under the Banner of Victory - forward to socialism! "