Union of Communists of Ukraine (continuing to fight on the territory of Ukraine)
Hello, dear comrades!
The Union of Communists of Ukraine, operating on the territory of Ukraine, greets you at this rally dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory over fascist Germany and its allies. We celebrate the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War because the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the Victory, and because it had the support of the working classes in all bourgeois states throughout the world. This allowed the USSR to create an anti-Hitler coalition with the participation of bourgeois allies and ensured broad anti-fascist resistance in many countries, mainly led by communists. This is our common Victory. Happy holiday, dear comrades!
We celebrate Victory Day on May 9th—the first Day of the onset of PEACE, while in European countries, for some reason, the Day of the end of the war is celebrated on May 8th. On May 9, 1945, peace came to Europe—an event occurred that changed the course of human history. At the cost of incredible and heroic efforts on the front and in the rear, the peoples of all 15 republics of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, under the leadership of the unified Communist Party of the USSR headed by Comrade Stalin, achieved victory over the monstrous offspring of imperialism—fascism.
In this war, it was not simply the Soviet Union against Germany and its allies; two systems, two ways of organizing society, fought—socialism and capitalism, in its bestial guise of fascism. In this war, it was precisely socialism that won a crushing victory over fascism and its Anti-Comintern Pact. All anti-fascists must remember this—only socialism can defeat fascism.
We call this war the Great Patriotic War because for all of us it is a personal history and tragedy: practically every Soviet family had members who fought or died. More than 26 million lives—such was the price of this war for the Soviet Union. This sacrifice must not be forgotten, nor must the feat of the Soviet people. The red flag with the hammer and sickle was raised over the defeated Reichstag. The Banner of Victory—his is the flag of the USSR, the world’s first state of working people!
It is all the more bitter for us to see how, in our native Ukraine, for all 34 years of so-called “independence,” fascism has been cultivated directly by European and American curators, with the consent of local authorities and the ruling class of newly-minted capitalists.
It has come to the point where thugs in military uniforms, hired and equipped with EU and US money, with chevrons depicting modified (and sometimes real) fascist swastikas, freely roam the streets of Ukrainian cities; they themselves admit to being fascists—ideological heirs of Hitler’s associates. These militants commit lawlessness and violence against their own population. Men are massively rounded up on the streets, conducting forced mobilization. Journalists who dare to raise their voice against fascists in Ukraine are simply killed, like Olesya Buzina and Gonzalo Lira.
We are forced to observe the mass stupefaction of people, the inculcation of nationalist values and ideas of national superiority. Degraded compatriots, for the sake of false national ideas, are capable of reporting their closest relatives to the political police, severing ties with parents living in Russia or Donbas, and even independently dealing with neighbors and relatives if they suspect them of insufficient “patriotism.”
A fascist regime was imposed on Ukraine; there is no doubt about this. But this fascism is Ukrainian only in its place of manifestation, in its language, and in its personnel; in its origins and funding, it is Western—American and European. It was Western capital that nurtured and incited the Kyiv Nazis. The fact that there are discords among them today does not change the essence; it was the same in the 20th century when the fascist beast bit its master. By analogy with the term “proxy war,” we can say that “proxy-fascism” is operating in Ukraine.
NATO has set up a proving ground on the territory of Ukraine—diverse weaponry is provided, including chemical weapons. With the help of the proxy—fascist regime, Ukraine has been turned into a weapon against the Russian Federation. The most cherished dreams of Russia’s enemies (such as Hitler, Dulles, or Brzezinski) are being realized by the Ukrainian authorities—a war of brothers against brothers is underway, Slavs are destroying each other. And the imperialists, rubbing their hands, throw in money, diverse weaponry, and ammunition so that as many people as possible from the former unified great country of the USSR perish—they are interested in our rich lands with mineral resources, and the people simply need to be destroyed.
Unfortunately, communist movements in many countries have also been subjected to anti-Russian propaganda. Thus, in Europe and the USA, a number of parties positioning themselves as communist and workers’ parties have adopted the anti-Russian rhetoric of the governments of their host countries, and have condemned the Russian Federation for alleged “unjustified aggression,” or equated it with other aggressive imperialist countries.
Alas, the same fate befell our organization: in early 2022, part of the leadership of the UCU (Union of Communists of Ukraine) left for the EU and effectively adopted the viewpoint of European governments regarding the Russian Federation. And declared that there is no fascism in Ukraine… Former comrades took the position that the war is imperialistic for all sides, but they themselves went to NATO countries, and from there safely fight against the alleged “unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia.” Have they forgotten how they themselves, since 2014, opposed the fascist punitive operations of Kyiv against the residents of Donbas, which by 2022 had claimed the lives of 15,000 people, including women and children? Do they not remember the dozens of people burned alive in Odessa? About the dances on the demolished monuments to Lenin and Soviet soldiers? Do they share the dreams of EU functionaries about inflicting a military defeat and dismembering Russia? How can this be understood, other than as apostasy and betrayal of the cause of the working class?
For us, who remain in Ukraine, the theme of the struggle against imperialism is particularly relevant: we are witnessing with our own eyes all the horrors of the most terrible offspring of imperialism—fascism, and in its most repulsive form of hypertrophied nationalism—Nazism. To stop fascism, anti-imperialist forces must consolidate as much as possible around the struggle for socialism, and communists must form the backbone of the anti-imperialist movement. We are in the same class ranks with the communists of Russia, acting in full ideological and organizational unity with the RCWP (Russian Communist Workers’ Party). We understand that today’s bourgeois Russia is not the USSR. The guilt of Russia’s bourgeois class in creating the situation that resulted in a war between fraternal peoples is undeniable. Starting with the counter-revolutionary coup of 1991, the liquidation of Soviet power and socialism, and continuing with attempts to blame the Bolsheviks and V.I. Lenin personally for the carnage. But we cannot allow the Nazis and their Western masters to inflict defeat on Russia.
We consider it the task of all decent people to fight living fascism without any delay or truce, here and now, by all possible means, involving all possible allies.
Do not stop the fight for socialism!
Our cause is just!
We will win!
Victory will be ours!