Dear veterans of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers and officers who honestly and conscientiously served in the Soviet Army in the postwar years, standing guard over the Socialist Fatherland and all those who remained faithful to the great humanistic principles of the Soviet Army in protecting the working people! We congratulate ALL YOU on the 101st anniversary of the creation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army! We wish ALL of you good health, longevity, happiness in your personal life, the implementation of your plans!
The temporaries who have come to power are trying to do everything in order to erase from the people's memory the true class meaning of the date of February 23, the Day of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army.
On February 23, 1918, when the troops of the young Red Army utterly defeated the German imperialists near Pskov and Narva, it was declared the Birthday of the Red Army.
The Red Army was created after the accomplishment of the Great October Socialist Revolution on a voluntary basis from the most conscious workers and the poorest peasants who are ready to give their strength and life to defend the Soviet Republic. The Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army became the armed force that was able to defend the gains of the Revolution, the gains of the working people from their class enemies.
In the Great Battles of the Patriotic War against the German invasion, the Red Army saved the peoples of the Soviet Union from fascist German slavery, defended the freedom and independence of our Motherland and helped the peoples of Europe throw off the German yoke. The Great Patriotic War was a class war not for the life, but to the death of two diametrically opposed socio-economic systems - socialism and capitalism. Thanks to the great feat of the Red Army, the plans of imperialism for the overthrow of socialism failed. The Soviet socialist social and state system emerged from the war even stronger and stronger.
After the bourgeois counter-revolution and the destruction of the USSR, the Armed Forces of the USSR were collapsed by the big capital who had taken power. It does not need a people's army, which is guarding the interests of the oppressed masses. It needs cannon fodder, which would protect its class interests and suppress the working people in the face of the confrontation of labor and capital. We call on all servicemen to prevent the circulation of weapons against their own people and during the accomplishment of the socialist revolution, which is inevitable, to go over to the side of the working masses in their struggle for the revival of socialism and our Soviet homeland - the USSR.
CC AUCPB
