Editorial

55th Anniversary of the End of World War II

Michael Lucas Editor

55 years ago a lacerated, charred Europe emerged from the most devastating war in history - a war to end all wars! The death toll exceeded over 50,000,000 men, women, old people and also children, the equivalent of the population of some countries. The unbelievable and tragic devastation of cultural values, created by the labour of many, many generations over many centuries, defied calculation and also understanding. The world in 1945 welcomed this total victory with eyes that were still wet from bitter tears.

The cataclysm, accompanied by the unprecedented fascist demagogy, urged on by Western imperialist states, intellectual degradation plus moral decline, cynicism and brutality surpassed any world natural catastrophic catastrophe that was ever registered by human kind.

The Soviet Union lost very close to 27,000,000 people! This number of deaths cannot be comprehended and it is obvious that the present generations do not even know that the USSR was saving all of mankind from Fascist barbarism, had suffered this colossal loss of its people! These facts are cleverly hidden by the capitalist class in most countries. Instead, all the propaganda now is to cast the USSR and Germany together at that time as Western enemies.

The young generation, now 55 years after the Day of Victory were brought up in this Cold War atmosphere, full of all sorts of lies and falsification of real history. Documented historical archives that are all available show us that the efforts of Goebbels and his German propaganda machine as well as all of the capitalist-controlled press of the USA, France, Britain and the rest of the Western world, helped to strengthen and perpetuate the belief that "Bolshevism shall collapse" under the might of German Fascism.

Seeing that the Soviet Union and its glorious Red Army smashed Fascism and liberated practically the whole of Europe, besides helping to defeat Imperialist Japan... Imperialism miscalculated that they could destroy the USSR by military might. They changed their tactics and unfortunately found internal traitors inside the Soviet Union, even in its Communist Party and thus on this 55th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War we see the temporary demise of socialism and of the USSR.

Today, United States imperialism, through NATO, IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization and the European Union, plus countless other blocs, all are meant to see tat the Soviet Union is not resurrected and the West proclaims to the world that Communism is dead forever. In this political charade, the leaders of West found eager traitors inside the Soviet Union and all other former socialist countries. Billions upon many billions of American dollars were spent, and are being spent even now in order to have accomplished this very temporary victory and prevent the resurrection of the USSR.

Unfortunately, since death of J.V. Stalin in 1953, the internal traitors have been diligent in also utilizing the Goebbels Big Lie theory and in this way generations of Soviet people have grown up, fed on falsehoods about the history of their own country, its glorious October Revolution of 1917 and its defeat of German fascism in 1945 at a loss of over 27,000,000 people! The school curriculum now in Russia and in other former Soviet republics is so warped and falsified that even the history books written during Soviet times are either all destroyed or are not available to the young generation.

Imperialism gives rise to Fascism, which is the highest stage of world Imperialism. USA wants to rule the world and will today not tolerate any country that wants to choose its own road to the future.

It is hoped that the patriots of the former Soviet Union will realize that time is running out in the quest for a United Front against the present bourgeois regimes and all of their Western backers. There is only one Marxism-Leninism! There is also only one way to defeat the present traitors... and that is not through the parliamentary games or everyone for themselves! Its never superfluous to say that; "United we stand... divided we fall!"

This year, March 26th in Russia are to be held the Presidential elections. Believe it or not there are 11 presidential candidates! It is a foregone conclusion as whom Imperialism and the IMF shall place in the Kremlin. And yet, the patriotic movements and some of the Communist, Marxist and Socialist forces are still divided and there is no visible sign or even concrete steps for UNITY! Goebbels would have been very proud, knowing that his propaganda job was more successful after his own suicide then when he was living.

Let us on this 55th Anniversary of World War II remember those 50,000,000 people who died so that we may live. Let us also try to remember that if it wasn't for the Soviet People and the 27,000,000 people who died in that carnage, we would have been probably living under Fascism, even though it might be hidden under another more palatable label.

Unity must be achieved, before it is not too late. There are glorious examples of the triumph of human reason to follow.

The Soviet Union shall rise up again! You cannot stop progress or Socialism!

At the left we present a photograph which shows the historical meeting of Stalin with Truman and Atlee, where it was hoped that world peace will be achieved after the carnage of World War II. The photo below shows what happened to the German Fascist war criminals in Nuremberg where they were tried and sentenced.

History will repeat itself!

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