APPEAL
by the Organizing Committee of the anti-imperialist anti-fascist front of the working people of Belarus
"No to neo-fascism! No to 3rd World War!"
On June 22, 1941, Hitler's Germany, treacherously violating the treaty of non-aggression, without declaring war, attacked the Soviet Union. The bloodiest war of all the wars in the history of mankind began - the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people, including the Belarusian one, against the fascist invaders, the war between European fascism, its strike force - fascist Germany, on the one hand, and socialism, the USSR on the other . On the side of Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Romania and other fascist and pro-fascist states supported the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact.
After the attack on the USSR, the Second World War finally and completely took on by the opponents of the Hitler block an anti-fascist, liberation character.
The Soviet Union, under the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), headed by J.V. Stalin - a great ally and continuer of the case V.I. Lenin, not only survived, but also defeated Hitler's fascism and saved the peoples of Europe and the whole world from fascist slavery.
However, the defeat of Hitler's fascism in 1945 did not save mankind from fascist danger. The ideology and practice of fascism again comes to the political arena, it is now called neo-fascism.
The scientific definition of fascism was given at the 7th Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1935 by the eminent figure of the Bulgarian and international communist movement Georgi Dimitrov: "Fascism in power is an open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialistic elements of financial capital."
Fascism is the product of the bourgeois system, world imperialism, which inevitably accompanies crises. This was the case in 1933, when the so-called National Socialist (Nazi) party led by Hitler came to power in Germany, unleashed a second world war and destroyed tens of millions of people. This is also the case today, in spite of the destruction of the Soviet Union by the internal and external enemies of the Soviet people and socialism in Eastern Europe, the general crisis of imperialism is again developing, the way out of which it seeks in World War III, which is already going on in its original local stage. Accordingly, the danger of a fascist threat is increasing both in Europe and throughout the world.
Despite the defeat of the main forces of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the threat of Islamic fundamentalism remains, the flow of refugees to Europe continues unabated, where fascist forces are again activated, ultra-right nationalism raises its head, symbolism of the victorious country is banned. In Poland, acts of vandalism against monuments to Soviet liberators are committed with the participation of state bodies, Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is being published in Germany, revanchist forces are being activated, the fascists are openly marching in the Baltics, and fascist are everywhere attacking the victorious J.V. Stalin. In Ukraine, with the support of Western countries, a coup d'état was carried out and the neo-Bandera government was brought to power. Here pro-Hitler's Bandera fascism was reanimated, whose hands were stained with the blood of many Soviet people, including on the territory of Belarus. The terrorist action of the pro-Western Ukrainian government against the people of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, who do not want to live under the control of the ultra-nationalist pro-fascist junta of Kiev, is not stopping. The aggressive NATO bloc will not be dissolved. On the contrary, the policy of "NATO's advance to the East" continues. Russia is increasingly surrounded by NATO military bases, primarily the United States.
In Belarus, where every third citizen of the republic perished in the last war, the pro-Western nationalist opposition is also becoming more active. Having trampled such a notion as conscience, it again flaunts under the sign of "Chase" and white-red-white flag, stained with the bloody cooperation of Belarusian collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. This opposition, supported by a part of the bureaucracy of the bureaucracy, again seeks installation of the monument to the "victims of Stalinist repression" in Kurapaty, where in 1941-1942 the Nazis and their local minions shot Soviet POWs, citizens of Jewish nationality from the Soviet Union and many European countries.
Unleashed by the neo-fascists, a full-scale World War III, which, if it grows into a nuclear one, can lead to the death of the entire human civilization, is a real danger. The general crisis of imperialism leads to the extreme limits of the contradiction between labour and capital, exacerbates the intra-imperialist struggle for markets, sources of raw materials and communications, and the seizure of foreign territories.
Especially dangerous at the present time is US imperialism, the financial-monopoly oligarchy of which is striving to establish complete world domination. Modern American imperialism has opposed itself almost to the whole world, acts brazenly, correcting all norms of international relations. Trump's policy of "reclaiming America's greatness" has led to an aggravation of economic relations even between the United States and Europe, which are NATO allies. Thus, modern US policy is the policy of international terrorism and state fascism. This we already observed on the eve of the Second World War.
As long as imperialism exists, the danger of wars remains. The impending global catastrophe can only be stopped by the united efforts of the working people of all countries, peace-loving nations and states.
In order to combat the military danger, to prevent the spread of the misanthropic fascist ideology, to counteract the coming of reaction to the democratic rights of the working people, the picketers appeal to all progressive people to show solidarity and stand united against the forces of militarism, war and fascism. We call on everyone who cares about the destiny of mankind, the fate of our children, the fate of our native Belarus to join the ranks of the founders of the anti-imperialist anti-fascist front of the working people of Belarus.
We support the international action of the United International Anti-imperialist Anti-Fascist Front on June 22 as the World Day Against Imperialism, War and Fascism.
Our modern slogans should be: "We demand to disband the aggressive bloc of NATO!", "No to the 3rd World War!"
Our cause is right! Together we win!
Adopted on June 22, 2018
at the IKK "Stalin's Line"
