Marking the 81st Anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Union of Communists of Ukraine (continuing the struggle in Ukraine)

A greeting to the communist and workers’ parties and to all anti-imperialist and anti-fascist forces marking the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War

Dear comrades!

Just over eighty years ago, the first workers’ state and its Soviet people crushed the stronghold of world imperialism―German National Socialist fascism.

This was a decisive and convincing victory of socialism over imperialism.

It enabled the liberation of almost all the peoples of Europe from fascism and its most horrific form―Nazism―and some from capitalism as well.

This victory of socialism over capitalism clearly demonstrated which path the peoples must choose for their development and prosperity, for capitalism forces people to think only of themselves, and this is a dead-end path, a path to degradation. 

As a result of the degeneration of the Soviet Union’s party and state elites and their betrayal, the enemies of the peoples of the world succeeded in destroying the Soviet Union and the socialist community, succeeded in destroying socialism in Europe and slandering it. Unfortunately, mistakes were made…

But now we are aware of these mistakes, and we will not repeat them!

Unfortunately, circumstances have developed in such a way that world imperialism is once again, albeit somewhat more cautiously than a century ago, sowing and nurturing fascism throughout the world; therefore, we need another such Victory.

Let us not waver in our struggle against the most fearsome enemy of the peoples of the world―imperialism!

We are firmly convinced that, united in our ranks, we shall secure the victory of socialism over capitalism and its vanguard, fascism!

Comrades!

We congratulate you on the eighty-first anniversary of the glorious Victory of socialism over fascism, which has shown us the way in our current struggle!