AKEL denounces Ukrainian Parliament’s anticommunist decision

 

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 16th April 2015, Nicosia

 

The Central Committee of AKEL denounces the unacceptable and undemocratic decision of the Ukrainian Parliament approved on 9th April 2015, to ban and equate communism with fascism, while also prohibiting the action of communists and the dissemination of their ideas. The objective of the forces that supported this decision is obviously the banning of the communist ideology and blocking the participation of the Communist Party of Ukraine in elections.

While the Ukrainian people is experiencing the worst conditions in its modern history, indeed the year when humanity celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Antifascist Victory of the Peoples of Europe, the Ukrainian Parliament is provocatively adopting this decision, insulting the memory of millions of communists who together with democratic and anti-fascist forces sacrificed their lives to defeat fascism-Nazism during the Second World War.

This decision of the Ukrainian parliament is part of the anti-communist and anti-democratic frenzy and political oppression since the first putchist government of Ukraine took power in an effort to prevent the activity of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It represents a continuation of the attempts to completely delete from the Ukrainian people’s memory the sacrifices made by and the service of the communists.

The provocative equation of the contribution and activity of communism with the crimes of Nazism-fascism is being promoted and supported as a concept by the European Union and its institutional bodies, given that in recent years through the European Parliament there is a blatant attempt to distort and falsify history. The EU has from the beginning supported the coup d’état government of Ukraine, closing its eyes to the dozens of attacks committed against Communists, and the attempts to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine.

As AKEL, we stand on the side of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the people of the country, expressing our unreserved solidarity with their struggle for democracy and real justice, for the termination of the civil war and the respect of the rights of the population as a whole.