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| Like seven decades ago, Fascism is being used as a weapon against our country. However, during the Second World War the Soviet Union and the bourgeois democracies managed to become allies in the fight against the “brown plague.” Today the leading Western states are openly invoking Nazism in pursuit of their geopolitical goals. |
Gennady Zyuganov’s open letter to the citizens of Russia:
Put an end to anti-Sovietism, disarm Russia’s enemies!
Our Motherland is facing a great
challenge. A fratricidal military flame is blazing next to its borders.
“The Western partners,” taking advantage of the situation they have
themselves created in Ukraine, are blaming everything on Russia and are
building a common front against our country. Their heralds are openly
talking about a new Cold War and the need to teach Russia obedience.
It is now clear that the experiment
aimed at putting Russia in tow of American globalism has failed. Europe
from Lisbon to Vladivostok is not taking shape. A benevolent partnership
is no longer discussed. The USA and the European Union increasingly
challenge Russian Federation’s right to state sovereignty. Poland is
again becoming a “corridor” by which threats are creeping towards our
borders. The latest Munich conference was marked by an extraordinary
degree of aggressiveness and rudeness of the NATO hawks.
Like seven decades ago, Fascism is being
used as a weapon against our country. However, during the Second World
War the Soviet Union and the bourgeois democracies managed to become
allies in the fight against the “brown plague.” Today the leading
Western states are openly invoking Nazism in pursuit of their
geopolitical goals. With their connivance the seeds of Fascism are
sprouting poisonous shoots on the land where Kievan Rus was formed a
thousand years ago and the common history of the Russians, Ukrainians
and Byelorussians began.
Today millions of Ukrainian citizens
have been poisoned by Russophobic and anti-Soviet propaganda. A hideous
wave of vandalism has swept many Ukrainian cities. The first target of
the vicious Bandera thugs is the founder of the Soviet state. The
destruction of monuments to Lenin, the symbols of Russian history and
culture can no longer be seen as a “grassroots movement” because it is
openly being blessed by government officials.
This orgy reflects the very essence of
what is happening in Ukraine. It was recently articulated by the former
education minister in Saakashvili’s Georgia who is now an active member
of the Kiev junta. Her formula is this: our common enemy is the Soviet
man. This is logical because it was the Soviet society that managed to
develop a strong immunity to rabid nationalism and fascism. There is a
rush under way to eradicate this immunity.
Anti-Sovietism and Rossophobia have from
the outset provided the ideology of the struggle not only against the
Soviet political system, but against Russia as such. The West saw the
Soviet Union as a double threat. On the one hand, it feared socialism as
an alternative to the capitalist world order. On the other hand it was
horrified that a new world was being promoted by the planet’s largest
country. For centuries it was scared by its wide spaces and power and
tempted by its untold riches on which Teutonic knights were among the
first to cast a covetous eye.
The USSR managed to make full use of the
opportunities offered by nature and the generations of ancestors. The
Soviet power could not be strangled by economic sanctions. Nor did the
Hitler hordes manage to conquer it by force of arms. But it has been
undermined from within by fostering a fifth column of anti-Soviet
dissidents and just plain traitors. The wise Alexander Zinovyev, who at
one point was a dissenter himself, admitted that the real target of
those who fought communism was Russia.
Ferocious anti-Sovietism led to the
bloody events in October 1993. For the Yeltsin gang the Soviets of
People’s Deputies were the last obstacle in the way of thuggish
privatization and stealing of the people’s property. The charred House
of the Soviets in Moscow was a harbinger of the Khatyn-like massacre in
Odessa and the punitive actions in Donbass.
The current grave crisis in Russia has
been designed in the CIA’s laboratories. But it would not have broken
out without the connivance of our home-bred “Westernizers” who organized
three waves of Russophobia and anti-Sovietism. The first destroyed the
USSR and the centuries-old unity of the peoples under Russia’s wing. The
second blocked the integration processes and buried the attempts to
restore the past might. The third led to a fratricidal war in Ukraine
and open blackmail of the Russian Federation by the West which has come
to believe that it has finally forced our country to the wall. Bandera
nationalism, backed by the USA, is already waging a fight against all of
us in Novorossia. Unless the latter-day Fuhrers meet with a fitting
rebuff there, NATO will soon have its bases near Kharkov. What it means
for Russian citizens is clear even to the Navalnys, Nemtsovs and other
American underlings.
In spite of the tragic lessons
anti-Sovieteers of every stripe feel comfortable in today’s Russia as
they deliver blows at its economy, science and education and the
historical grandeur of our Motherland. Disgusting stuff regularly
appears in print, in film and on television that denigrates the
achievements of the Soviet era, including the Great Victory.
It is hard to accept a situation when
government channels spend money on propagating the views of aggressive
Russophobes and anti-Sovieteers. A major state-run TV company is
promoting and showing a historical series that claims to be an authentic
documentary. The vicious hatred of its author, Nikolai Svanidze, of all
things Soviet and Russian precludes any objectivity in assessing
events. Svanidze himself, when he appears on television talk shows,
invariably turns out to be the loser as the absolute minority of viewers
support him. When the opinion of a pseudo-historian is repeatedly
rejected by society there are no grounds for foisting him on our
compatriots, especially when it is financed by the tax-payers’ money.
Very different voices should ring
proudly all across the country. The voices of those who cherish the
heroic past and preserve the memories of past heroic deeds. But these
voices are not always heard by the officials. On the eve of the 70th
anniversary of the Soviet People’s victory in the Great Patriotic War
the state has found no money for a film about the heroic exploit of the
Panfilovites. The money for it was raised by donations of the common
people.
Historical and cultural landmarks are
targeted not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia. There are examples
galore -- from damaging the Lenin monument at Finlyandsky Station in
St.Petersburg in April of 2009 to the latest acts of vandalism in
Novosibirsk. It all started much earlier, in the “wild nineties.” And it
continues today only because it does not meet with a resolute reaction
of the authorities. Indeed, some of their members themselves initiate
the displacement of monuments, renaming of streets and occasionally
desecration of graves.
Every now and again respectable-looking
gentlemen propose to destroy the Lenin Mausoleum and the necropolis at
the Kremlin wall. And yet they know very well that the best sons of our
country in the 20th century, the true heroes of the Soviet
Power are buried there. So, they are doing it consciously. This is their
life’s choice. Their calls reveal the ideological kinship of the
Russian anti-Sovieteers and Banderovite thugs.
Anti-Sovietism is aggressive,
persistent, crafty and therefore contagious. Its bacillus causes the
authorities to coyly drape the Lenin Mausoleum during festive events
held on Red Square. The Lenin Mausoleum, which witnessed great events,
was hidden from the eyes of citizens even on the sacred day of the 70th anniversary of the November 7, 1941 parade. This is something that must not happen on May 9, 2015 on the 70th
anniversary of the Great Victory. It was at the feet of the Mausoleum
that the flags of the defeated Hitler hordes were thrown down. Hiding it
on the great Victory Day is an affront to the veterans, both living and
dead. It humiliates all of us who are heirs to the victorious heroes.
The government has already prepared and
approved a program to mark the centenary of Solzhenitsyn’s birth. And
yet even his fellow-writers had mixed feelings about him. They accused
him of “seeking personal success with all the provocative gimmicks that
go with it.” Yes, Western propaganda has turned Solzhenitsyn into an
anti-Soviet icon. But is that reason enough to prefer his jubilee to the
200th birthday of that great wordsmith, Ivan Turgenev, or the 100th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Simonov, the 150th anniversary of the painter Serov or the 100th
anniversary of the birth of the great composer Sviridov? Is
Solzhenitsyn’s contribution to Russian culture really superior to
theirs?
It is only by glorifying the truly great
names that one can expect new cultural achievements. Instead Russian
classics are being eased out of school curricula. Collectivism, which
has forever been a feature of our people and has more than once saved it
in times of hardship is proclaimed to be a pitiful hangover of the
past. True values are replaced by the surrogate Western liberal values.
The great writer Mikhail Sholokhov, who foresaw this danger back in
1978, wrote to Leonid Brezhnev: “One of the main targets of the
ideological offensive today is the Russian culture which is the
historical foundation and the main wealth of our country’s socialist
culture. In belittling the role of Russian culture in the historical
spiritual process, distorting its lofty humanistic principles, denying
its progressive and original character, the enemies of socialism are
trying to besmirch the Russian people as the main international force of
the Soviet multi-national state, and portray it as spiritually impotent
and incapable of intellectual creativity.”
The enemies of socialism Sholokhov was
referring to have done their job. They have pushed out country onto the
path of degradation and decay. But they are not content with what they
have done. The masks are off. They do not need an imperial, socialist or
capitalist Russia. To defend our right to a future, we must stop
attacking and smearing our country’s past. After the exhibitions devoted
to the Ryurikovich and Romanov dynasties an equally massive exhibition
about the Soviet era should be organized. It is necessary to highlight
out cultural achievements. We propose to publish a 100-volume collection
of Russian classics which should reach every library and every school.
We should bring back such high-profile events as decades and feasts of
the friendship of the peoples.
The sky-high approval ratings of our
current leaders should not generate a feeling of “anything goes.” The
reservoir of popular trust was built up when Russia reclaimed the Crimea
and Sebastopol. And no wonder because the healthy part of our society
is still in the majority. It is ready to support the moves that meet the
national interests and tend to strengthen and revive our Motherland.
However, as long as the rot of anti-Sovietism continues to eat at the
“vertical power structure” any useful initiative may be ruined and
discredited.
Anti-Sovietism is the banner of traitors
and defeatists. It is pushing our country into an abyss. Those who
inspire and commission anti-Sovietism today are the same external
political forces as those of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The
ruling class of the imperialist West will never forget that our country
had for more than half a century stood in the way of its world
dominance. Our socialist past will never be forgiven. The West will seek
revenge for our industrialization that created a great power. For the
victory in May 1945 and Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight. For
achieving nuclear parity and assisting the peoples of Asia, Africa and
Latin America that had thrown off the colonial yoke.
We Communists do not deny that not
everything in the Soviet history has been smooth. It never is in real
life. Especially in the life of trail-blazers, the builders of a new
society. But the CPRF is urging all the citizens of Russia to remember,
cherish and protect from attacks our common heroic past. Ahead lies the
centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Russia has every
reason to mark it in a big way, like they celebrate the jubilees of the
Great French Revolution in France. This should be recognized now, on the
eve of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet people’s victory
over Nazi Germany and militarist Japan. It was not by chance that Stalin
described it as the victory of the Soviet state and socialist system.
That system was born in October of 1917.
In the ranks of the Russian Communist
Party there is room for discussion, there are different opinions on some
issues, but there are none who are prepared to forfeit their land,
their history and their dignity. We all share love for our country, a
sense of justice and rule of the people. We are fighting for socialism
and we understand that it is impossible without a national soil, without
the heritage the Russian and other peoples have created over the
centuries of living in their common home. We remember Pushkin’s words:
“Disrespect for the ancestors is the first sign of immorality.”
Today Russia is being attacked on many
fronts. Everything from economic and diplomatic pressure to military
threats is pressed into service. The offensive in the ideological and
information fields is very important. The sting of the Russophobes oozes
the poison of anti-Sovietism. They seek to sever us from our roots and
deprive us of our heroic past that can inspire us in the struggle for a
better future. The coveted aim of Western propaganda is to destroy the
memory of the great achievements of the socialist era. Instead it is
trying to instill a sense of shame for our ancestors and make young
people want to renounce them as soon as possible.
In order to take Russia out of its
crisis and open up new vistas for it, it is necessary to be aware of the
unity of our history. Recognizing this, President Putin logically urges
us to take the best of our heritage on board. Patriarch Kirill stresses
the contribution of the Soviet people to the development of our
country. Once an awareness of such important truths is there one should
act without delay. One should start with the institutions of power and
its representatives. The worms of anti-Sovietism there should be
resolutely and finally destroyed.
In November 1941, at a moment of
dreadful peril, Stalin called on the people to follow the example of the
patriotic heroes of all times. A true patriot today has no right to
renounce any achievements of our thousand-year history. Fighting for
Russia in the same ranks with us are the hosts of Kievan Rus and the
regiments of Muscovy, the zemstvo volunteers and Suvorov’s warriors, the
soldiers of Borodino and the Red Guard heroes, the fighters who routed
the foreign invaders in 1918−1922, and the valiant soldiers of the Great
Patriotic War.
I am sure that the people of Russia will
boldly uphold their right to a future and the truth about its past.
They will struggle regardless of the position the ruling elite will
take. Our multinational people will uphold the right of their children
and grandchildren to live in a country that does not need to be lectured
from across the ocean. In a country that is not a feeding trough for
the world oligarchy. In a country which, relying on its great history,
determines its future shape itself. I have no doubt that the youth of
Russia wants to live in a land of pioneers and heroes, and not of
traitors and drug addicts.
In the face of an external threat the
time has come for all of us to recognize that anti-Sovietism is a form
of Russophobia and he who makes war on Soviet history is an avowed enemy
of Russia. The only suitable place for anti-Sovietism is in the dustbin
of destructive, stale and harmful ideas. They should not poison our
daily life. Russian society needs to breathe pure and fresh air. The
country needs a healthy atmosphere of pride of the deeds of their
ancestors, faith in the future, a healthy atmosphere of creativity and
progress.
Gennady Zyuganov
Fuente: Solidnet/PrensaPopularSolidaria
http://prensapopular-comunistasmiranda.blogspot.com
Correo: pcvmirandasrp@gmail.com
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