Sakharov Center trained cannon fodder at rallies in Moscow with Western money

Moscow, September 24. The Sakharov Center conducted training to train provocateurs to participate in illegal rallies. The main sponsors of the Sakharov Center are Western funds. NTV Channel released an investigation film “Curators and Provocateurs”. Journalists showed footage shot at the Sakharov Center during the next training on the preparation of “cannon fodder”.

The Sakharov Center is a Moscow non-profit organization, the main sponsors of which are the Soros Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the British Foreign Ministry and other Western structures. In 2014, the Center was already included in the list of foreign agents, however, the center's management complained to the ECHR.

The training courses for cannon fodder at the meetings were held in the form of lectures and practical exercises. Note that Western curators did not spare money on props - batons, police uniforms. At the same time, future provocateurs were trained to work on the camera, pose and give the desired picture.

At one of the trainings there was even a cage with the inscription "ATS". Young people were trained to resist the police and shout insults. In addition, the so-called trainers were taught not to be afraid of clashes with law enforcement officials. Participants were taught to confront the police even in the smallest detail: one speaker said with confidence that presenting a document at the request of a law enforcement officer was allegedly “complicity in a malfeasance”.

Lecturer Alexander Archagov, speaking to young people at the Sakharov Center, called on future provocateurs to “not think about the consequences” and sacrifice themselves. “Your choice is not to find you innocent or guilty. You have a choice: either you "samurai", speaking our language, and try to insert  damnable matches into this system so that it gets stuck a little ... "- said Archagov.

At the same time, “coaches” spoke reluctantly about the responsibility and consequences of participating in illegal actions. However, after illegal rallies, these same “lessons” led to extremely unpleasant consequences, some provocateurs received real terms for using violence against government officials. The opposition did not promise any help to the provocateurs, the organizers of the illegal rallies - Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol and others - soon forgot about the arrested and went on vacation.

Political analyst Alexei Martynov noted that it is difficult to imagine the existence of such a center for training "yellow vests" in Paris. Obviously, training provocateurs is against the law. The editors of the Federal News Agency are asking the prosecutor's office to pay attention to what is happening in the Sakharov Center.

Recall that political rallies were held in Moscow in July and August of this year, including uncoordinated gatherings. The reason for the rally was the refusal of the Moscow City Commission to register representatives of the so-called “opposition” as candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma due to fraud in the signature lists. For example, FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol found more than 14% of fake signatures, including “dead souls” in her signature sheets. Even during the election campaign in Moscow, a whole headquarters was opened for drawing fake signatures for opposition candidates.

Posted by Sergey Petrov, Federal News Agency

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The first experience of proletarian internationalism is relevant today

On the 155th anniversary of the creation of the First International

       At the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, against the background of aggravated problems of pre-monopoly capitalism, there was an upsurge in the labor movement in many states. Numerically grown and taught by the experience of the revolutions of 1848–1849, the proletariat (working class) of the most economically developed countries of Europe, freed from the influence of the bourgeoisie, took the path of independent development. Close international relations within the framework of the finally established world capitalist market contributed to the identification of the common interests of workers of various states. The first manifestations of international proletarian solidarity were associated with the support of the strike movement of the working people of England, France, and Switzerland. Workers in many countries have recognized the need to create a single international organization that can help solve their social problems, which, in fact, were common to many workers, regardless of their national or state affiliation. Capitalism in all countries manifests itself in the same way. He plunges the majority of ordinary workers into the abyss of poverty, hunger, exploitation, when the capitalists pay pennies for hard work.

     The commonality of social problems for many workers from various countries served as one of the important reasons for the creation of the First International (International Partnership of Workers).

     This proletarian organization was founded in London on September 28, 1864. Karl Marx was one of the main leaders in the creation of the First International. By uniting the most conscious workers around him, represented by F. Lessner, E. Dupont, G. Jung, he actually headed the organization, putting an end to the attempts of bourgeois elements to seize leadership. In the Constituent Manifesto, written by Marx, the proletariat set itself the task of fighting for the complete abolition of exploitation, for the overthrow of the capitalist system.

     The international workers' partnership was built on the basis of democratic centralism, which means the election of all senior officials, periodic reporting of leadership to local committees, strict discipline and submission of the minority to the majority, unconditional binding decisions of the highest bodies for the lower ones.

     This organization, actually managed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, led the economic and political struggle of the proletarians of various countries and strengthened their international solidarity. The First International had its branches (sections) in France, Germany, England, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Holland, as well as in the USA and even in Australia.

     The organization also united those work collectives where various petty-bourgeois movements still had great influence. The First International opposed anti-Marxist ideology, promoting and upholding scientific communism. In particular, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels fought a persistent struggle against the subversive and destructive work of the anarchists.

     In 1872, at the suggestion of Marx, the seat of the General Council of the First International was moved from London to New York. A few years later, the experience of struggle showed that this proletarian organization in its former form can no longer exist. The next day was the task of creating mass political parties of the working class in each country. In 1876, the First International ceased to exist.

       The international workers' partnership was the most important stage in the struggle of the founders of Marxism for the proletarian party. The activists of this organization went through the school of internationalism, made an ideological transition from utopianism and sectarianism to scientific communism. The First International formed all the necessary conditions for the mass struggle of the proletariat of all countries for socialism, laid the foundation for the world communist movement. According to V.I. Lenin, the foundation was created for an international organization of workers to prepare their revolutionary onslaught on capital.

     The experience of the First International must be used today, uniting the proletarians of all countries and nationalities in a single joint struggle against imperialism, fascism and the accompanying wars, to prepare for the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeois system in all countries where it exists, for economic and political equality in the form of socialism.

S. Kuzmin

September 26, 1919 Stalin again sent to the Southern Front

From the minutes of the meeting of the plenum of the central committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks):

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"... to appoint Comrade Stalin a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front"

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From the memoirs of the red commander K. Voroshilov:

"The fall of 1919 is remembered by everyone. The decisive, turning point of the entire civil war was coming. Equipped with" allies ", supported by their headquarters, Denikin's White Guard hordes approached Orel. The whole enormous southern front was rolling back with slow ramparts. Inside, the situation was no less difficult. Food the difficulties were extremely aggravated. Industry stopped from a lack of fuel. Inside the country, and even in Moscow itself, counter-revolutionary elements began to stir. The danger threatened Tula, the danger hung over Moscow.

It is necessary to save the situation. And on the southern front, the Central Committee sends Comrade Stalin as a member of the PBC. Now there is no longer any need to hide the fact that before his appointment, Comrade Stalin placed three main conditions before the Central Committee: 1) Trotsky should not interfere in the affairs of the southern front and should not go beyond his dividing lines, 2) a number of workers should be immediately recalled from the southern front whom Comrade Stalin considered unsuitable to restore the situation in the troops, and 3) new workers of Stalin's choice should immediately be sent to the southern front, who could fulfill this task. These conditions have been fully accepted. "

What salary do you need to get now to live like in the USSR?

         Many Russians now recall with warmth life in the Soviet Union and believe that the standard of living in that era was much higher than now. Some try to argue with them. Is it possible to fairly compare the standard of living in the USSR and modern Russia? And how exactly to compare?
       Comparison of the standard of living can be done in different ways, taking for calculation the main world currency, the purchasing power of citizens or gold. We will focus on the last option - on gold. Because it was clearly written on Soviet bills that each of them is provided with gold, precious metals and other assets of the state bank.

     Soviet ruble and gold: how to count?

       It was believed that after 1961 one Soviet ruble was provided with one gram of gold. Imagine a simple worker who receives a monthly salary of about 150-200 grams of gold. Very good conditions.
       However, in fact, it was impossible to exchange rubles for the gold that provided them. Therefore, we cannot consider, based on the principle of 1 ruble of the USSR = 1 gram of gold, since the comparison will not be entirely correct, and it will not reflect the standard of living of citizens.
       In fact, about 7.5-10 grams of gold bullion could be bought for the average salary in the USSR, and even less in the form of jewelry. That is, 1 Soviet ruble was not worth 1 gram, but 0.05 grams of gold. And such a calculation will also not reflect the standard of living of a Soviet person.
       Therefore, we will take the value of gold on the London Stock Exchange, established for that period. The average price of gold in the 80s of the XX century was about 400 US dollars per Troy ounce (about 31.1 grams).
       When converted to rubles, this is about 8 rubles per gram of gold. It turns out that the average salary of 150-200 rubles was worth 18.75-20 grams of gold. The average pension was 80 rubles, or 10 grams of gold of its value on the London Stock Exchange.

Salary now in the USSR

        Today, 1 gram of gold for an individual in Sberbank will cost almost 3,000 rubles. If we take this figure, then the Soviet average salary of 200 rubles equals 75,000 rubles in modern currency. And the average pension is 30,000 rubles.
       But for an honest calculation, we, as in the first case, will turn to the London stock exchange. Now gold is worth about 1250 American dollars per ounce, or 2620 Russian rubles per 1 gram.
       It turns out that the standard of living as in the Soviet Union can be achieved with an average salary of 65,000 rubles and a pension of 26,000 rubles.
       However, one should not forget that in the USSR the overwhelming majority received this average wage, and the Russian average wage varies widely, many are on the verge of poverty and simply do not have the ability to reach the average level, while a small proportion of the population has excessively large incomes. allowing you to raise the average high enough.
       In addition, today citizens are faced with acute issues of housing and education, and citizens have to give a very large share of their income to resolve these issues. While in the USSR, citizens were provided with all this for free.


Lawyer Shvedov Sergey Alekseevich

NEW UNITY OF WORKERS

Interview with Yuri Sharipov, Vladimir Vodolazov and Igor Muravyev on the first preliminary results of the crane strike in Kazan in July-August 2019.

Corr .: So much time has already passed, soon there will be a month, what are the first results of the first month of the cranemen’s stubborn struggle for their fundamental interests and what has been achieved?

Yu. Sh .: What did we manage to achieve:

     On July 24, one of the companies agreed to raise the salary to 350 rubles per hour. The management made concessions, only a few hours after the cranes stopped. However, later management backtracked and refused to fulfill their words. They said so bluntly: "if there were more of you, we would have agreed to negotiations, but there are few of you, so you yourself understand." This suggests, on the one hand, that the collective stop has worked, on the other, that the employer is not keeping his word. We are preparing for the next wave in order to make it clear that words need to be kept.

    In some firms, the owners caved in, albeit to insignificant, but raising salaries.
    A number of firms switched over to an 8-hour working day and agreed to pay for overtime work, according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
    SOUT appeared in the contracts, insurance appeared.
    We were heard by supervisory authorities and began to conduct checks. Recall that before that we were absolutely ignored for two years. Therefore, we need to further strengthen the union and prepare for a new stage in the struggle. Practice has shown that as soon as we act collectively, the state and bosses take us seriously. The very fact that the bodies began to stir is already an achievement. The owners of the cranes began to reckon with us and communicate more culturally, respectfully.
    None of the protesters was actually fired! No one was fined or suspended. This suggests that the employer is bluffing, trying to scare and demoralize us by any means. Our example shows that these words do not have real weight.
    We made a huge fuss in the media. The whole country found out about us, the news reached the leadership of Tatarstan and Russia. We attracted great attention to problems in the construction industry, to the monstrous working conditions of crane operators and the outrage in the field of maintenance of cranes.
    We were supported by workers from various fields from all over the country. Crane workers from other cities, inspired by our example, embark on a struggle in their regions! Now work has begun on the creation of union cells in other cities. The whole country is proud of the Kazan crane operators, who, having gathered courage, decided to collectively fight for their dignity!
    We have proved to everyone that the worker, the crane operator, is not a slave. There is a tremendous power in our working hands, and, using this power correctly, we will change a lot and make our life more worthy.

This action, thus, yielded certain results. Further, our goal is to achieve the fulfillment of the requirements that were originally stated. To do this, we have a strategy and action plan. Everyone will stand up. Go for the victory!

Corr .: Are there any losses (i.e. dismissed for performances) among crane operators?

Yu. Sh .: There are no real dismissals for the speech. There are people who decided not to "butt" and quit "of their own free will." But now there was information that some companies decided to "survive" the crane operators who took part in this action. Employers are afraid of the slightest manifestations of activity and are trying to protect themselves from possible performances tomorrow.

Corr .: Did the number (number) of members of your union decrease or increase?

Yu. Sh .: No, the quantity has not changed yet. Neither one way or the other. The overall activity has decreased, but this is against the background of rumors circulating about the alleged defeat of the union in the struggle and some of the activists have changed. But this is normal, after such a serious action.

Corr .: How significant was the assistance of the MPRA trade union, its leadership, can you name them and what kind of help did they provide?

Yu. Sh .: Yes, the leadership of the MPRA provided us with tremendous help. And even if this doesn’t seem important from the outside, it’s really a big help in creating and maintaining the information component of our action. The entire flow of information is processed and posted in VK and on other platforms with the help of a team of information officers from the MPRA. Plus, before the start of the campaign, asset training, assistance in developing a performance strategy, advice and support during the campaign.

Corr .: What can you say today about the role of collective struggle?

Yu. Sh .: Everything is simple. Only collective action will help us succeed.

Corr .: You demand compliance with the established Labor Code of the Russian Federation normal working hours and working weeks, and now there is a heated discussion throughout Russia about working hours, for example, the oligarch Prokhorov recently demanded a 12-hour working day, and the Russian Committee of Workers (RKR) For a long time already requires switching to 6 hours. salary-saving working day, what do you think about this?

Yu. Sh .: Unfortunately, we would now have to achieve compliance with the Labor Code. And not just to achieve, but also to maintain this state. Becausethey can promise us anything, but to fulfill it is a completely different conversation. When we can say that this issue has been resolved, then we will proceed to consider other initiatives.

Corr .: Do you intend to continue the struggle and unite your struggle with the struggle of workers in other regions of Russia, for example, annually, twice a year - in spring and autumn, workers' representatives gather in Nizhny Novgorod to exchange experiences and coordinate their struggle? Are you going to participate there or delegate your representatives there?

Yu. Sh .: Of course, we want unification. It’s just that we and other workers and engineers need time to unite our positions. As for the MPRA trade union, as part of it, it is a member of the KTR trade union (Confederation of Labor of Russia), which also includes the Federal Aviation Administration (Federal Air Traffic Control Unions), the Action union, which unites medical workers, the Teacher union and other trade union organizations in throughout Russia.

As for the participation or delegation of our representative, in fact, to resolve this issue, a separate meeting of the trade union should be held. But we still have unresolved problems that need to be devoted a lot of attention. But at the trade union committee we will certainly discuss this issue and see at what meeting to raise and consider it.

Corr .: What are your relations with the members of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and other parties, including the Workers Party of Russia?

Yu. Sh .: Only representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation responded to our appeal to various public and party organizations a year ago. All the others either said nothing about our appeal, or dissuaded themselves from a misunderstanding of the subject. We did not know about the Workers' Party of Russia a year ago, however, with the beginning of our action, the members of this party give us their support to the extent that they can provide it.

Corr .: And how much do you consider from your own experience necessary these relations with various parties?

Yu. Sh .: Any communication makes us stronger. As we have said more than once, if a person is talking to us, even if speaking against us, we have a chance to convince him. And anyone who fully supports us, but does not tell us anything about it, he is invisible to us, because we know nothing about him. My personal opinion is that any communication is good.

Interview took B. Abiddinov, a member of the RPR

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the fighting on Khalkhin Gol (May 11 - September 16, 1939)

Encouraged by the imperialists of the West, in May 1939, Japanese militarists launched military operations against the Mongolian People's Republic in the area of ​​the Khalkhin Gol River.

Having an agreement on mutual assistance with the MPR, the Soviet Union came to the aid of the Mongolian people. At the end of August, in decisive battles, the Soviet-Mongolian troops defeated the aggressor.

It was the defeat at Khalkhin Gol that played a major role in Japan's abandonment of plans for an attack on the USSR, even in 1941, which was difficult for us. This allowed the Soviet military leadership to transfer part of the Far Eastern divisions to the west, primarily to help defending Moscow.

After the defeat at Khalkhin Gol, Japan launched the tip of its aggression south and east against China, the USA, Great Britain, their allies and colonies. The Japanese invaders conducted offensive operations in a vast territory, which included a significant part of China, Burma (including military operations on the border with India), Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, the northern regions of Australia and numerous Pacific islands belonging to the United States and Great Britain.

At the same time, the danger of Japan starting a war in the Soviet Far East remained until August 1945, but the lesson of defeat at Khalkhin-Gol was not in vain for the Japanese military.

UNITED WITH KAZAN'S CRANE OPERATORS

     Since July 23, tower crane drivers in Kazan, united by a union, have opposed safety violations, slave labor conditions, and decent wages. All this time we closely watched the events taking place around these workers, we were faced with many problems within the construction sphere, and the tasks facing the working class as a whole were revealed. Today it is already possible to look back and see what they have managed, what they have been able to achieve, and what remains to be done.

     Everyone who participated in the preparation of the action remembers how, before the execution and the presentation of the demands, the crane operators were seriously afraid of the reaction of the employers. For a person of labor, one of the most serious losses can be considered removal from work. After all, this is not only the place where they earn, many crane operators have connected their lives with this profession, sincerely love their job and proudly say - I am a crane operator. It was the fears of layoffs that became what did not allow a stronger rally. Today we can say that these fears in general did not materialize. And this needs to be taken into account by fellow crane operators for work within the union

     Isolated facts of dismissal still exist. So, for example, one of the leaders of the Kazan crane operator's trade union - Yuri Sharipov, during the campaign was without an employment contract in his hands. I did not have time to apply for a job, as the company’s office is located in Perm, but at the same time I began to assume my duties. Nevertheless, the employer refused to conclude an employment contract with Yuri. Now he believes that he can hardly get a job in Kazan. But here a very controversial point arises, because the employee who has started to perform duties is considered according to Art. 61 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation concluded an employment contract. In fact, in the future this should become the subject of litigation, possibly judicial. We will follow the development of the situation. Another activist of the trade union, Igor Muravyov, is forced by the employer to sign a document whose contents are not disclosed to him. Both parties understand that there are no legal grounds for dismissal, and therefore even such primitive methods are used to get rid of the activist. About five more crane operators, most of whom were women, at the time of the sharp confrontation decided to quit on their own. Not wanting to put up with what is happening at construction sites, they went on to change their profession. As we see, the mass dismissal of union activists did not happen. And although it was not without losses, practice has shown that capitalists are not ready to give up their workers. Comrades crane operators, it turns out that you have nothing to be fired for, it’s not so easy to replace you.

     Threats of employers sounded no less serious that losses from downtime of cranes will fall on crane operators. As it turned out, in the future, seeing the absurdity of such statements, no one made any claims to the crane operators. After all, the cranes were not the fault of the workers, they only refused to work with gross violations of existing norms and rules, with violations of labor laws, and this is the problem of the capitalist who owns the means of production, that is, the owner of the crane. In this case, the crane operators did what everyone should do at their workplace, especially if you have such a complex and dangerous mechanism as a tower crane in your hands. And you need to do this every day, regardless of the action.

     Now let's try to evaluate what they got, what Kazan crane operators were able to achieve with their struggle. To do this, we’ll look at this question more broadly than dry numbers can show us.

     Attracting attention to the problems of crane operators caused a revival of regulatory and supervisory authorities. A wave of inspections swept through the construction sites. Although in many respects they were of a formal nature, in some cases the owners of the cranes were forced to eliminate gross violations of safety and labor protection, to put in order the documentation. Hastily eliminated the problems of the mechanisms of the cranes, affecting the safety of work. Inspections concerned violations in the field of labor relations with employees. Many crane operators have finally received their employment contracts. And in some contracts there was a clause on insurance.

     There is evidence of a number of companies passing a special assessment of working conditions. For crane operators, the SOUT was raised to class 3.1. that is, the work of the tower crane operator was considered harmful and increasing the risk of damage to health. Employers agreed with a normal working day of 8 hours, and engaging in overtime work is now possible only on a voluntary basis. There are companies that have announced an increase in hourly rates for crane drivers and increased overtime pay. What's happening? The companies began to compete among themselves for crane operators! And although it was not possible to achieve payment of 500 rubles. in an hour, it should be noted that the process has begun. And in the minds of the capitalists is already the thought that the rates will have to be raised, and the conditions will improve
b. You, comrade crane operators, do not understand this yet, but they already live with it. Now the main thing for you is not to depreciate your work. And overtime is the depreciation of labor, the depreciation of your achievements. It is important for each of you to understand this and communicate to your comrades. And in the future, you should be faced with the task of fighting for a 6-hour working day while maintaining the level of wages. Your working conditions suggest this even within the framework of current legislation.

       And, perhaps, the most important thing to note is that these scattered on different construction sites, closed in separate cabins, could unite and come up with general demands. No matter how further the fate of these people, this union develops, they, having overcome their fear and threats of employers, have already tasted the experience of collective struggle. They saw how strong the workers united by a common idea become. They realized that the only way they can make them reckon with their interests. Here is what one of the union activists says:

- With those who supported the action, who dared “show their teeth”, employers speak in a very different way. We are now not silent cogs in the large and complex mechanism of the modern construction business. We have changed the attitude towards crane operators in general. Even those who did not support us, feel a change in relations with the "owners".

     Unexpected was the wave of solidarity raised by crane operators from other regions, which was then picked up by workers across the country. With the words of support were the same workers, employees, representatives of the intelligentsia and students. Comrade crane operators, they looked at you, worried about you, working people from all corners of our big country were proud of you! Looking at you, workers in other cities began to unite. You, having taken your first step in the collective struggle, have done this for all of us. Now your experience is our experience. This is very important, this is your merit, your victory.

Yusupov I.Sh.

Overview of the labor movement in the second half of August 2019

Strike in the Far East

On August 26, 2019, in the city of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Territory, workers at the Bor chemical plant suspended their duties until wages for the second half of July were paid.

The problems of the enterprise have been dragging on since 2003, when its bosses first declared bankruptcy of the plant.

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Crane operators strike in Kazan led to positive results for them

In mid-August, a protest rally continued in the capital of Tataria, which began in July.

The striking crane operators summed up the preliminary results of the strike.

During the protest, the builders' working day was reduced to 8 hours. The authorities paid crane workers overtime hours and took measures to insure their life and health. In addition, the protests attracted the attention of supervisors, who began inspections.

The strikers noted: “We have proved to everyone that the worker, the crane operator, is not a slave. A tremendous force is in our working hands, and, using this power correctly, we can change a lot and make our life more worthy. ”

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In the Rostov region another rally by miners

On August 24, in the town of Gukovo, near the Palace of Culture, the miners organized a picket. They demanded that the head of the administration of the Golubev region pay back all their salary debts and resign.

The honored miner Nikolai Shulepov, who was present at the event, said with sadness: “I go to pickets to support people. We try to resist, we try to pay everyone the remaining debt, we try to wake the government, we do not give them rest. There is no industry in the city, despite the statement that Gukovo is a territory of rapid development. Only the service sector, shops, a bazaar and small wholesale markets operate. There are no mines, there are no depots and technical depots, there is no railway. All this was previously tied to the coal industry, to mines that is now closed. For coal by creating many jobs, now it's all lost. Of course, we hope, just not clear what. Create then large enterprises, most likely, will not be, so that the city will continue to turn up. "


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Rally in Stalingrad

On August 25, 2019, a mass protest rally was organized in the city on the lower Volga, on Metallurgov Avenue, in which workers, intellectuals, housewives, unemployed, students, and pensioners took part. Protesters said that the size of salaries and pensions in the city and the region does not meet the level of prices and tariffs for housing and communal services.

Protesters rallied because of a deterioration in living standards. One of them said: "I am here for myself and my friends who, like me, live in a former hostel ... The right to a decent life has been taken away from us. Prices are constantly rising, the right to decent work has been taken away from us, in our factories "We have been taken away the right to free housing. Even if you work, the salary is 15-20 thousand rubles, a family with two children is sentenced to poverty. Families are crumbling due to lack of housing."

The resolution adopted as a result of the rally contains requirements to take measures to support industry, reduce unemployment, create jobs, and increase salaries and pensions.


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Abroad

"Yellow vests" held a demonstration in France against a meeting of the rulers of the "big seven"

On August 24, demonstrators marched through the streets of Paris with the slogan "G7 for some and nothing for others."

A protest rally also took place in Toulouse, hundreds of people took part in it.

In the vicinity of the city of Biarritz, where the rulers of the G-7 countries met from August 24 to 26, clashes between protesters and the police took place.

In the commune of Jurrun on the border with Spain, seven activists were injured during the confrontation between demonstrators and "law enforcement officers", 17 people were detained. Protesters said they were organizing an anti-summit, tried to block the highway, and began to erect barricades. The police used rubber bullets against them.

Hundreds of people gathered in the city of Bayonne, which is located ten kilometers from Biarritz. There, the police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the demonstration. 68 people were detained.

In addition, the "Yellow Vests" and their supporters organized a procession from the French city of Hendaye to the Spanish Irun. About 15 thousand people took part in the march.

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Mass protests in Sri Lanka

On August 21, the working people of the islands marched against the Employment Act. In particular, a crowded demonstration was held near the building of the Ministry of Labor in the capital of Colombo. Its participants demanded that the unified employment law proposed by the government be repealed. According to trade unions, the proposed changes in most cases undermine the rights of workers and ultimately lead to a deterioration in working conditions - an increase in working hours, a decrease in wages, a decrease in the level of security and a reduction in many of the currently existing social benefits and protection methods. Proposed changes ok8 million workers of private enterprises will have a negative impact on basic working conditions and will make the 8-hour workday a thing of the past.

“It is unacceptable that the new proposed law gives the employer the right to make decisions on working conditions through employment contracts, making workers defenseless and vulnerable to the whims and whims of employers,” said one of their union activists.

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Strike on the Spanish island of Ibiza

On August 25, hundreds of hotel workers went on strike because of poor working conditions. The protest was supported by the General Confederation of Labor of Spain.

The protesters demanded that the hotel owners treat them as professional workers with the appropriate rights and workload.


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Portugal rally

On August 21, flight attendants from one of the well-known airlines went on strike.

With this protest, they showed their dissatisfaction with the non-compliance with the rules regarding the payment of vacation subsidies.

“If voting could change anything ...”, or again about parliamentary cretinism

                                                In our forest, there is no alternative to him!
           
                                                      "I love you, sleepy forest!"



Relatively recently, the capitalist authorities in Russia came up with such an innovation as “a single voting day”. Before that, elections in different regions were held at different dates. Now “one day” for this set the beginning of September. So in 2019, this “election day” was September 8th.

As this date draws nearer, some “left” leaders, primarily from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and those close to them, turned into zombie clowns urging them to go to polling stations and vote for “good” candidates.

Almost from the day of its foundation, the AUCPB has been boycotting and ignoring bourgeois elections for good reasons: no election can change the nature of the existing system, capitalists will not give up power or wealth because of some kind of “vote”. To rely on the fact that by casting ballots in ballot boxes you can achieve some real changes - it’s silly and naive. The calls of the left parties to take part in the elections, to stand for their party candidates, only distract the working people from the real class struggle, inspire them with the illusion that allegedly they can be defeated not by revolutionary means, but by throwing pieces of paper in ballot boxes. But in elections, everything is decided by money, as well as fraud. As correctly noted a long time ago: “If voting could change anything, it would be illegal”  said Lenin in reference to the belief that workers can win the election parliamentary cretinism.

It is significant that the majority of workers who simply ignore this clowning and do not waste time going to the polls have long been disappointed at the election institute.

Nevertheless, figures close to the Communist Party continue to invite people to participate in these cheating games. Among ordinary supporters of “parliamentary parties” there are even sincere believers in the usefulness of the elections, even if they understand that the authorities cannot be won in this way.

What arguments do they make? The funny thing is that in their argument they try to refer to Lenin, hardly remembering that the Bolshevik leader said something about the fact that participation in parliament can be used to agitate and propagate his ideas. The level of references "to Lenin" in this case shows that they just did not read the works of Lenin and Stalin on this topic, but only heard the ringing, but did not know where he was.

First, in tsarist Russia, the emergence of the State Duma was a progressive phenomenon, a step forward - from the autocratic monarchy to bourgeois parliamentarism. The current bourgeois authorities are steps back from the power of the Soviets. Therefore, participation in the current bourgeois representative bodies of power is not a progressive phenomenon at all, as at the beginning of the 20th century.

Secondly, Lenin did send the Bolshevik workers to the State Duma, but he did not become a deputy of the Duma and did not aspire to become one. What do we see today with the example of the Communist Party and other “parliamentary leftists”? They do the exact opposite: their leaders strive to occupy deputy seats, but they cannot find workers in their ranks. (More often there you can see the bourgeois who are ready to sell seats on the electoral lists by the same Communist Party.)

Finally, thirdly, it looks especially curious when they try to apply Lenin’s statement about using the parliamentary tribune for campaigning in the case of elections to local representative bodies - city councils. The Bolsheviks, indeed, considered it possible to participate in the elections to the State Duma, but not the “struggle” for seats in local Zemstvos. And this is exactly what the same Communist Party offers us every beginning of September - to compete with the bourgeoisie for getting into local zemstvos, in the city duma.

If participation in the election of the all-Russian parliament still somehow allows you to talk about your political program, then the election of local deputies excludes this. Voters coming to local elections are practically not interested in the political platform of candidates. What does such a voter need? In order for the local deputy to help carry out gas in houses, asphalt a path on the street, etc. Who can do this? This can be done by a United Russia official who has the necessary connections, or a bourgeois who has money for this. But this is practically impossible for the deputy “communist”, who has no money and connections. As a result, when the term of deputy powers passes and the time for re-election comes, the voters look: which of the deputies did what. So, the official conducted gas to his voters, paved the bourgeois path ... And what did the deputy “communist” do? Did you talk about socialism? “Atu’s citizens, we won’t vote for the Communists anymore!” And this is how the authority of these fake “Communists” falls. Come on - only them. But they themselves discredit the title of communist.

Nevertheless, in every new election, the Communist Party and its clones are again and again urging to compete for deputy seats, either increasing their representation in city dummies or decreasing ... And so - for ages.


Moreover, the Communist Party also calls on supporters to vote for their candidates in the election of governors and mayors, trying to convince that the election of a mayor or governor could make a difference ... In fact, members of the Communist Party have repeatedly become mayors and governors. In the 1990s and 2000s, there was a whole “red belt” from regions where Communist Party members were governors. And where are they all? Either they lost the next election, or they were canceled, or they fled to United Russia, but they naturally did not build any socialism and did not remove the bourgeois from power. The election of mayors “communists” in small towns is very much in the hands of the regional bourgeoisie. Regional authorities simply cut off such cities from financing, and in cities where the mayor is a “communist," sometimes even traffic lights stop working due to lack of money. And then this fact is used for bourgeois propaganda: say, look, to what the mayor "communist" has brought his city ...

Does all of the above mean that the Bolsheviks will always and in all conditions call for ignoring the elections? No, not like that, it's more complicated. There was a period when the AUCPB urged citizens not to go to polling stations. There was a period when the AUCPB called on voters to vote “against all,” and then spoil the ballots. In Ukraine, during some memorable elections, the organization of the AUCPB even called for a vote for Yanukovych to stop Yushchenko and the neo-fascists following him.

The position of the Bolshevik Party is built depending on the specifics of the political situation, and what was right yesterday becomes wrong tomorrow.

But the main thing to remember: do not get infected with parliamentary cretinism. The communists do not win the election; the communists will win the class revolutionary struggle.

Dar Vetrov

EASTERN ECONOMIC FORUM 2019

WORLD CORPORATIONS PROMOTE THEIR INTERESTS IN THE FAR EAST

The 5th Eastern Economic Forum (WEF 2019) was held in Vladivostok from September 4 to 6, 2019. In total, about five thousand participants from more than 50 countries were expected at the forum. But more than 8.5 thousand people from 65 countries of the world, 440 companies gathered at the forum venue.

     The main event of the first day of work was a visit by Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Zvezda shipyard. As subsequent events have shown, Russian Helicopters Holding notes in the Far East progress in implementing the Russian-Indian Ka-226T helicopter project. This set the tone for the development of events at the WEF 2019, as the leading representatives of the forum - Russia and India would like to see it. One of the most important outcomes of the meeting was the creation of a free trade zone between India and the Eurasian Economic Union. The Indian leader liked the Far East so much that he spoke in Russian.

The conditions for the Far East to enter the trajectory of faster growth have been formed. Major projects and construction projects will be launched in this region, the Russian president said. V. Putin added that the achievements in the economy of the Far East should be converted into a “social breakthrough”. But with the ways for the “upsurge,” everything did not look so great.

The bureaucratization of state functions related to the escort of cargo transit through Russia is the key to fulfilling the goals of the comprehensive plan for modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure (KPMI), said the owner of the Delo group, Sergey Shishkarev. The Northern Sea Route will become a serious competitor to the Trans-Siberian Railway in the delivery of transit goods from Asia to Europe. And it seems that among Russian owners of transport routes, a battle has begun for spheres of influence on the transport of goods from Southeast Asia to Europe. The needs of the Russian economy are as if on the side of a hot spot.

            After the Prime Minister of Japan S. Abe arrived on the second day of the WEF, messages were filled up: the Russian-Japanese medical center will be built in Khabarovsk; The diamond center will be created in Vladivostok; a new gold mine will be built in Kamchatka; A new railway route Vladivostok - Suifenhe - Vladivostok will connect Russia and China. New factories, smart cities and mortgages at 2% - opened up bright prospects

            The party - the organizer of the WEF 2019 - was so carried away by the sale of everything that the situation recalled the times of the 90s, when everything was sold off.

Vladimir Putin said that he was offering his American counterpart Donald Trump to purchase the latest weapons from Russia, including hypersonic weapons, but the United States said that they themselves plan to produce analogues.

            Russia exclusively went on a visa-free visit to the Kuril Islands by the Japanese, and against this background, it is strange that Tokyo does not issue visas to residents of the Russian Crimea, Putin said.

            The work to eliminate the accumulated environmental damage in Russia is complicated by the fact that the country does not have accurate information on the number of hazardous waste burials, said the head of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev.

            Deputy Transport Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Tsvetkov believes that statements made earlier by Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Erikson Sereide about doubts about the economic feasibility of the Northern Sea Route and Norway’s plans to verify its compliance with environmental standards are aimed at curbing Russia's development in the Arctic region.

            A preferential mortgage for the Far East at 2%, which Vladimir Putin announced during the WEF plenary meeting starting this year, could be received by 17.8 thousand young families in need of housing. It is expected that every second such family will take advantage of it, it follows from the presentation of the Ministry of Eastern Development. Given the outflow of the Russian population from the Far East, the number of people in need of housing should be increased to at least one and a half million young families. But traditionally there is no money, since they from Russian banks tend to go to offshore zones, where no one finds them.

            Russia may become one of the world leaders in creating a 5G communication network, said Alexander Povalko, general director of JSC Russian Venture Company (RVC). “Today there is a real chance to create our own 5G product and enter international markets. Currently, 5G technology is owned, in different configurations, by China, South Korea and the USA. Russia can become the fourth world leader in this field, we have a serious chance this will be achieved. Technologically, we already have our own developments in this area, including those of Novosibirsk companies. So far there is no one company that can assemble everything on a turn-key basis, but we have everything that we need to create our own 5G system. And, at least with  national vendors in this area, we can "- he said.

            In fact, this means that we do not have a national leader in 5G, but if we give money to Novosibirsk to companies, they can try to do something. If, of course, the allocated money is enough ... A sort of model of the modern costly mechanism.

            Real life outside the WEF was knocking on the door with the usual mismanagement.

            Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko criticized the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin because of work with flood victims in the Irkutsk region. According to Mutko, entrepreneurs in flooded settlements have not yet received payments, and Oreshkin at this time sits at a forum in Vladivostok.

            “The Ministry of Economic Development cost a lot of efforts to achieve the allocation of 500 million rubles to support the entrepreneurs of Tulun in a record short time. The main support in this matter was provided by the first deputy chairman of the government, Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov and the deputy chairman of the government, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Konstantin Chuychenko. Unfortunately, Mutko’s participation in this matter was minimal. Now it’s important to bring this money to people in a fair way, ”the Oreshkina department said.

“Bring this money to people in a fair way” is the most memorable phrase in the framework of the announcement of the WEF 2019 ideas.

Vladimir Ryabov

September 7, 2019 Leningrad.

September 9 - DPRK's birthday

  On September 9, 1948, the formation of the DPRK, the first socialist state in the region, was proclaimed in northeast Asia on the Korean peninsula. The Korean people marched on this difficult 50 years of bloody struggle with the Japanese enslavers, who, in fact, established a slave-owning regime against the indigenous nation of the peninsula, prohibiting the use of the Korean language, knocking out the original Korean culture from the soul of the people, forcibly sending young Korean women to Japanese soldiers' brothels . And this gangster Japanese lawlessness seemed to have no end. But in Korea on April 15, 1912, Kim Il Sung was born - a charismatic leader who, from an early youth, set himself the task of freeing the country from oppressors. October 17, 1926 in the city of Jilin (China), he proclaimed the creation of an organization of young people - the Union for the Overthrow of Imperialism. On August 28, 1927, Kim Il Sung created the Korean Communist Youth League. Thus, organizations were gradually formed, whose cadres later became the backbone of the Workers' Party of Korea and played a decisive role in the victory of the Korean revolution and the formation of the DPRK.

     On September 18, 1931, the Japanese launched an offensive on Manchuria. The Chinese army randomly retreated. There at that time was Kim Il Sung, who led the armed guerrilla warfare against the Japanese enslavers. By this time he had already created the organizational conditions for guerrilla warfare. Small partisan detachments produced weapons in battles with the Japanese, and produced something on their own. On April 25, 1932, Kim Il Sung created the Anti-Japanese People’s Partisan Army (ANPA), which initially numbered no more than one hundred young people. Kim Il Sung is actively working on creating guerrilla bases in the Tuman River Basin, bordering between China and Korea. The base bases eventually turned into zones freed from the Japanese, completely controlled by the partisan army of Kim Il Sung. Subsequently, on May 31, 1934, the ANPA was transformed into the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (PRRA).

     In May 1936, at the initiative of Kim Il Sung, the constituent congress of the Renaissance League of the Motherland was held with the adoption of a 10-point program reflecting the objectives of the Korean Revolution, the creation of the people's government of Korea and the socialist transformation of society (nationalization of industry, land reform, compulsory free education, etc. .).

     On June 4, 1937, a PRA unit led by Kim Il Sung entered Korean territory. Preparations are beginning for a popular anti-Japanese uprising. A powerful partisan base is being created in the area of ​​Mount Paektu - a reliable mass base of the revolution. Mount Paektu becomes a symbol of Korea as the country's parent mountain. Fierce fighting at the end of 1938 with regular units of the Japanese Kwantung Army and puppet troops of Manzhou-Guo created very difficult conditions for the Koreans and the need to get out of the encirclement in December 1938 in an unprecedented frost without food and rest of the forced march led by Kim Il Sung . The march lasted 100 days and entered the history of Korea under the name "Difficult Campaign."

     In May-August 1939, when the Soviet-Mongolian troops were engaged in difficult battles with the Japanese in the Khalkhin-Gol River region, the PRC troops conducted military operations to disorganize the Japanese rear and disrupted the transport of personnel of the forces and military equipment of the Kwantung Army.

     At the beginning of 1940, a meeting convened by the Comintern was held in Khabarovsk. At it, Kim Il Sung spoke out for the immediate formation of a joint anti-fascist front of the communists of three countries - Korea, China and the USSR. In July 1945, Kim Il Sung took part in a meeting in Moscow, which discussed issues of a military operation against Japan, carried out in accordance with an international treaty. Here Kim Il Sung met with Zhdanov, Zhukov and other leaders of the CPSU (b) and the Armed Forces of the USSR.

   On August 9, 1945, simultaneously with the declaration of the USSR war of Japan, Kim Il Sung gave the order for a general offensive to all CPA units.

     On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered. August 15 is celebrated in the DPRK as the Day of the Revival of the Motherland. August 15, 1945 was the starting point for the creation of the first socialist state in the north-eastern region of Asia. indicating the countries of the Third World the practical path of struggle for their independence, for the legal right of each people to independently choose their own historical path of development.

     But from the very beginning, the United States put up strong resistance to the peaceful state-building process of Korea. The Americans landed in the south of the Korean Peninsula on September 8, 1945, under a false pretext, allegedly. the need to disarm the army of defeated Japan, which actually was not, since the Kwantung Army was already defeated and disarmed a month ago by the armies of the USSR, Kim Il Sung and Chinese volunteers and surrendered. Americans set the demarcationline along the 38th parallel, thus it was the Americans who divided Korea into 2 parts and occupied the south of the Korean Peninsula. Before that, Korea was a single state.

       The Americans hastily created the puppet regime of Lee Sung Man in the south of Korea, which was engaged in the destruction of the Communists. In the period from 1945 to 1949, more than 150 thousand communists who fought 50 years for the revival of their homeland were killed by mass repressions in southern Korea. All material assets of the territory occupied by the Americans were declared US property and 80% of them were transported overseas.

     In the period after August 15, 1945, Kim Il Sung did everything possible to form a unified provisional government in Korea. It did not work out because of the fierce resistance and sabotage of the Americans and the puppet regime of Lee Sung Man.

     On September 9, 1948, the Great Leader, Comrade Kim Il Sung, proclaimed the formation of the DPRK.

     We have given the story of the Korean people's heroic struggle to create their own independent state in order to show how much the Korean nation paid for today's opportunity to live and work freely in the DPRK, how many lives of the best of their best sons and daughters were given in the name of today's socialist Korea. This should always be the basis for HOW vigilantly preserve and preserve the socialist state of workers, peasants and labor intelligentsia created in battles. DO NOT succumb to the always false WORDS and PROMISES of US President D. Trump about his alleged desire to live in peace and friendship with the DPRK, as was the case, for example, at the meeting of Comrade Kim Jong-un with D. Trump in the Pan-Jungjong in the demilitarized zone 30 June this year.

     In our cruel age of violence and international gangsterism, the United States can only defend its independence by the STRENGTH of a state with nuclear weapons and other developed NEW means of defense and defense of its Fatherland, the creation of which was recently announced in the Korean press ...

     On the occasion of the glorious anniversary of the creation of the DPRK, we wish this beautiful country with its hardworking heroic people, led by its leader comrade Kim Jong-un, new victories on the peaceful front of the creation, development and defense of our Fatherland.

Central Committee of the AUCPB

Russia expects a national crisis

     With the impending new stage of the global crisis of imperialism, Russia cannot avoid this crisis, being a part of the world imperialist system.

       Bourgeois political scientists — economists, historians, sociologists, psychologists, and other specialists — predict a national crisis for Russia in the coming years, which will last about two years and end with a change in the political regime. They state that society is tired of the 20-year liberal course of the economy and, in their opinion, Russia's forward movement requires a change in the strategic economic course.

How effective the modern liberal course of the Russian economy is seen in terms of GDP growth. Rosstat estimated Russia's GDP growth in the II quarter of 2019 at 0.9%, in annual terms, which is within the error of determination (https://regnum.ru/news/economy/2687880.html). In the Stalin era, GDP growth amounted to 25% (the second five-year period).

They consider the cause of the national crisis to be a highly aggravated sense of justice among the people. The lack of justice in the distribution of social wealth, the mass poverty of the population in the world's richest country with natural resources, the disregard, arrogant attitude of the "servants of the people" - officials and authorities to their "master" - the people. Some of the rich allow themselves to call the people "rogue."

       People are particularly outraged by the glaring inequality in society: on the one hand, the terrible poverty of a significant part of the population, and on the other, the flashy and puffy wealth of a small handful of rich people who became rich due to the mass robbery of the country's population during the period of perestroika and in subsequent times. In Russia today there are 172 thousand dollar millionaires and more than one hundred dollar billionaires.

         The number of poor in Russia in recent years has fluctuated around the figure of 20 million people. This is more than 13% of the total population of the country. A poor person is one whose income is below the subsistence level. The cost of living by the government today is 11280 rubles. Among large families in Russia - 39% live in poverty. Among families with a disabled child, 37% of families barely make ends meet. In rural areas, 45% of children grow up in low-income families. We have about 5 million Russians living in dilapidated and dilapidated houses, the wear of which is from 70% and above. On the other hand, the aggregate fortune of the country's 200 largest entrepreneurs in 2017 alone increased by $ 25 billion to $ 485 billion. In the same year, the number of dollar billionaires in Russia increased from 96 to 106.

       At the same time, during the entire period of the liberal government, there is a constant outflow of capital from Russia in the amount of hundreds of billions of dollars, some of which goes to the acquisition of luxury real estate by the rich. Over the past two decades, only £ 100 billion of goods and financial instruments have passed through London and have been reinvested in property. The most luxurious mansion in Washington was bought by a Russian billionaire. The Yaroslavl billionaire for six million dollars bought a theater in London - one of the oldest theaters in the London West End! Another Russian billionaire bought the islands of Scorpios and Sparti for $ 100 million. The daughter of another billionaire and part-time State Duma deputy from the Republic of Tatarstan bought an estate in England in Surrey for 2 billion rubles. A little earlier, she bought an apartment in London for 10 million pounds. The Russian billionaire bought the world's largest yacht for € 400 million. For comparison, the twenty most expensive boats owned by Russian billionaires exceeded the cost of all warships built in the tenth years for the Russian Navy. For example, for 20 billion rubles — that is, for the cost of the not the most expensive yacht — you can upgrade the entire storm sewer in a large Russian city ... Or repair roads, for example, in the Kirov region. All roads in the area in need of repair!

The newest Russian “aristocracy”, one way or another came to power in 1991, represented by the oligarchy, political managers with real estate in the West, albeit recorded on a diverse family, secular “lionesses”, Rublev’s wives, all kinds of servants, including singers, writers and directors of the sample “prisoners of conscience and slaves of honor”, ​​he does not want to know anything about the life of the people, he hates Russia, spends most of his time abroad.

Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko (mother of dollar billionaire Sergey Matvienko!) Said that society should not have “discrimination of rich people” and that businessmen should not be condemned to switch to the civil service and to deputies, which, as practice shows, is mainly for lobbying their business interests or the interests of investors. (A good explanation of the essence of the current political power and the purpose of the Russian State Duma. Thank you!)

The current inequality in Russia is comparable to the level of inequality in the Russian Empire in 1905, which led  the Russian Empire toward the Revolution of 1917. This situation, according to some political scientists, with which we agree, indicates the extreme inefficiency of the current liberal Russian government. Therefore, confidence in the government is falling.

According to bourgeois political scientists, President V.V. Putin correctly argues that Russia needs a powerful economic upswing. Is the old-new government of D. Medvedev, reassigned V.V. Putin able to make this rise in 2016? No, not capable, they correctly consider. This is evidenced by 10 years of stagnation of the economy under the control of the same people, led by the same liberal economic dogma. We believe that the reason for stagnation lies in the fact that V.V. Putin cannot abandon his buddies - the "chicks of the Sobchak team" (to which he himself belongs), who are now in the highest structures of power.

This is Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Kozak, German Gref, Yegor Gaidar (died in 2009). As well as other “chicks of the Sobchak’s nest”, many of whom held leading positions in the government of Leningrad with him: Anatoly Chubais, Igor Sechin, Alexei Kudrin, Vladimir Churov, Alexey Miller, Vladimir Zubkov, Sergey Naryshkin and others closely connected with Leningrad University, nursery and headquarters of the counter-revolution.

Confidence in such a government is, indeed, exhausted, and there will be no growth of trust in the future. Therefore, society internally becomes ready for a social explosion, for revolution.

Our “partners” from across the ocean are zealously preparing for us a new “perestroika”, identifying Navalny’s leaders as one who organizes “protests against the authorities” calling for a change of Putin. We believe that the matter is not in Putin, but in the oligarchic capitalist system established by the counter-revolution in Russia. We are not for replacing some leaders of the capitalist formation with others (in this case, odious and inextricably linked with the West), but for replacing the criminal capitalist system with the socialist formation, which is possible only through the socialist revolution.

All the "protest actions" of Navalny are well funded by the United States for the implementation of the color revolution in Russia. Although they don’t write about it, everything secret becomes clear, such as the reason for the constant shelling on the contact line in the Donbass during the declaration of the ceasefire regime there. It is known that the APU commanders on the demarcation line constantly report to the American sponsors on the number of daily attacks by fighters of the APU on the territory of the DPR and LPR and on the number of victims among civilians in Donbass.

The “protest actions” of Navalny are widely advertised and popularized not only by the Russian Internet, but also by the Internet of our foreign “friends” to invite to participate and to notify about the route of the convoy of “protesters” (in Moscow), as well as about the successes achieved. If we take into account that these actions involve mainly young people who are little versed in politics and are “eager” for free money - paying for their participation in the action (known from Navalny’s previous shares in Moscow), then the shares can gain up to 15 million in Moscow 10-15 thousand people, which is less than 0.1% of the population of the city. So there is no need to talk about the "mass" support by the population of Navalny’s actions. According to the plan of the Western curators, the planned total number of those detained in "protest actions" (and not just those taking to the streets) should exceed a million ...

Despite the use of the media, despite the participation in the organization of the "protest" by representatives of US intelligence agencies working under the guise of the diplomatic status of the US Embassy, ​​and the financing of these actions, the Americans are not able to organize a "color" revolution in Moscow. The attempts of the “liberals" to hold an all-Russian protest rally on August 10 turned out to be untenable: in many cities, units came to share.

Bourgeois political scientists, predicting and predicting a political explosion, recommend the ruling authorities: if the government does not want a revolution from below, as it was 100 years ago, then the government must conduct a revolution from above. For this, it is necessary, firstly, the Central Bank, chaired by Sahipzadovna Nabiullina, to refuse to follow the instructions of the IMF and not to obey the ideology of the Washington Consensus, not to sit in the trenches of inflation targeting (targeting is a series of effective measures aimed at combating inflation). Secondly, they recommend the president to propose to Sergey Glazyev to change the model of economic development of Russia and provide him with the opportunity to implement the so-called accelerated development strategy proposed by the president.

But to realize this, it is necessary to raise pensions and the salary of citizens to a level of at least 40 thousand rubles a month instead of the notorious minimum wage (minimum wage) 11280 rubles, because cheap labor is a brake on economic development ... How can this be achieved in practice? Sergei Glazyev, heading the country's government, should annually increase pensions and salaries of state employees by 15−20%. This would increase the income of citizens, increasing the demand of the population in the domestic market, which would inevitably lead to an upswing in the Russian economy.

Government reforms and judicial reform are also needed. Qualitative changes are needed in the structure of the government responsible for economic development: the creation of indicator strategic planning bodies to organize the provision of a strategic management system for the Russian economy. Unlike the USSR State Planning Commission, which was developing policy plans for the development of the USSR, strategic indicator planning, created for 5.10, 15 and 25 years (as it is in China and Japan), is advisory in nature. And so on ... other recommendations.

       Is V. Putin able to carry out the reconstruction of state power in the Russian Federation, proposed by bourgeois political scientists? Hardly. Both the ruling oligarchy and his “friends” from the Sobchak team (mentioned above) will not allow him. Therefore, Russia is doomed to a political crisis of power, to a revolution from below, to a socialist revolution, no matter how scary it is to recognize the ruling elite not only of the economically oligarchic elite in the Russian Federation.

   Russian liberals, while concocting the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation, stated in it (Article 13) that there is no and cannot be a legislatively fixed ideology in the country. Such a formulation regarding ideology in the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation then pursued only one goal - to hide from the general public that they were not witnesses to the change of General Secretary Gorbachev to the alcoholic Yeltsin, but witnesses to the bourgeois counter-revolution, the change in the country of the socio-political system. And there, until they figure it out - to privatize and grab the nation-wide state property of the country, to destroy everything that was built later and with the blood of millions of Soviet people. The main thing is to quickly “slip through” and firmly saddle the socialist state, reforming it into a capitalist state.

     In our opinion, for Russia to move forward in order to fulfill its historical mission - to be ahead of the rest - it is not necessary to reform the existing criminal capitalist system, but to replace it with a socialist formation, where a person is not an enemy and not a competitor, but a friend, comrade and brother. The animal fear of power before the inevitable coming new socialist revolution does not leave the ruling class, and the question of the maturing of the revolutionary situation in Russia is already being discussed by deputies on the sidelines of the State Duma ...

Is the working-class and communist movement ready for decisive action? No, not ready because of its disunity and disorganization. The ruling government has protected itself from mass protests of workers by issuing draconian laws such as - allowing only single pickets, rallies only with the permission of the local administration, which does not always allow even protest rallies; surveillance by the enterprise administration of the political “trustworthiness” of those working at the enterprise, etc. (In Belarus, the government came up with an original way to prevent rallies, legally obliging the organizers of rallies to PAY for the rally!) Trade unions protect the interests of employers.

The communist opposition is divided into many parties and small parties, the creation of which the regime encourages with ambitious leaders. Many "communist parties" are created for one purpose - participation in the next election campaign - they are fighting for a very bready place in government, the price of which exceeds the worker’s earnings by 10 times or more. Legally existing "Communist Parties" live in complete consensus with the ruling authorities ...

Today the movement for the revival of the USSR is growing. Despite the constant curses of socialism, the communists and the Bolsheviks on the Internet, television and in print, the dream of a just world worthy of a well-paid job, free education and medicine, scanty payments for housing and food is alive in the hearts of people.

Capitalism has exhausted itself, as can be seen in the example of US domestic policy, and indeed in their foreign super-aggressive aggressive policy in certain regions of the planet. All over the world, fascism raises its head as the only effective force in the struggle of oligarchic financial capital with the labor movement, which is expanding and demonstrating its first successes.

         The workers and the communist movement cannot stop there. We must boldly go forward, winning capital from power one after another position. We wish the movement for the revival of the USSR, the workers' and communist movements everywhere good luck on the chosen path of the difficult struggle for socialism and in the struggle against the fascization of regimes

In the fight we will win!
General Secretary of the AUCPB
                                                                                                   Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva



August 15, 2019

A rally dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the memory of G.G. Anzhievsky in Pyatigorsk

On August 31, 2019, in the city of Pyatigorsk, at the monument to Grigory Grigoryevich Anzhievsky, in the park named after him, the Pyatigorsk City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks held a rally marking the 100th anniversary of the first chairman of the Council of Pyatigorsk, the first secretary of the Pyatigorsk city organization of the Bolsheviks, the first honorary citizen of Pyatigorsk - the brutally executed by the White Guard August 31, 1919 on Mount Kazachka.

   On a hot sunny day before the rally, revolutionary songs were sounded, the Bolshevik Hammer and Sickle Hammer newspapers were distributed, propaganda work was carried out with residents about the role of G. G. Andzhievsky in the revolutionary transformation of Pyatigorsk and the formation and defense of Soviet power and white terror. Only in the Krasnoslobodsky cemetery of Pyatigorsk more than 10,000 Red Army soldiers were buried, executed by the White Guards, chopped up with drafts from January 19, 1919 to March 1920, during the Civil War and the intervention of 14 states (led by troops of the United States, Britain, France, Japan and other countries ) ...

     At the rally were displayed: standard of the AUCPB, a red flag with a mirror image of the leaders of V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin, red flags with a sickle and a hammer.

At the foot of the monument to G.G. Andzhievsky were assigned red carnations.

     Residents welcomed the rally with long beeps of cars ...

     The Pyatigorsk city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation invited to the rally did not appear ...

     The rally opened with the performance of the Stalin Anthem of the USSR. The meeting was addressed by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks N. Degtyarenko, comrades Velichko L.A., Kuzmenko L.I., Katsan N.S. and other comrades.

   The rally statement was unanimously adopted.

   The meeting closed with the performance of the Stalin Anthem of the USSR.

Eternal memory to the Bolshevik Grigory Grigorievich Anzhievsky!

Glory to the heroes who fell for the cause of the Great October Socialist Revolution!

                                                                Pyatigorsk TC of the AUCPB.

STAR HOUR IN THE HISTORY OF BULGARIA

SEPTEMBER 9, 1944 - 75 YEARS FROM THE DAY OF SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

The fact of what we are witnessing in Ukraine today, the Bulgarian people survived, from 1923 to 1944, during the period of the monarchist fascist monarchy. The Bulgarian bourgeoisie, which gained power in the country as a result of the Liberation from Turkish rule, was actively striving to obtain huge profits and access to international spaces, to conquer new territories, the dominant place among the Balkan states. Participation in the Balkan wars, and then in the First World War on the side of Germany devastated the country, plunging the people into poverty and hunger.

The aggravation of contradictions in society and the strengthening of the position of big capital led to the fascist putsch on June 9, 1923. The answer to it was the world's first anti-fascist uprising, which broke out, first of all, among the peasantry, united in the Agricultural Union. The Communist Party belatedly joined in the preparation of the uprising, which swept the whole country, it was a real civil war. It was crushed with unprecedented cruelty. During the struggle without trial, more than 15,000 people were killed. Brutal terror reigned throughout the country. The country was littered with gallows, conflagrations, communist heads spread on sticks spread over the squares of cities and villages to scare the population ...

A series of articles by Georgy Dimitrov on the need for a united front of workers and peasants appeared in these days, in which he argued that "fascism is not only anti-communist, but also anti-people." Total searches and arrests took place, the party’s archives were seized and newspaper and magazine editorial offices were closed. The detainees were kept in terrible conditions, tortured and tortured so that the events in Bulgaria shocked the whole world. The USSR organized assistance to the rebels through the MOPR. In Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other cities of the world, Committees against the white terror in Bulgaria were organized. In defense of the Bulgarian people, Romen Rolland spoke. Henri Barbus wrote the book “The Executioners”, in which he described how in the Bulgarian parliament the Communist deputies showed the bloodied shirts of their comrades. Parisian lawyer Marcel Vipar and American correspondent Karl Mouse published books about the unheard-of atrocities of Bulgarian fascists. Under pressure from public opinion, not a single European government supported Bulgarian fascism.

These events explain why it was Georgy Dimitrov who became the person who most accurately determined the nature of fascism, saying that “Fascism is an open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialistic elements of financial capital. Fascism is a superclass power, and not the power of the petty bourgeoisie and the lumpen proletariat over financial capital. Fascism is the power of financial capital itself, it is the organization of terrorist reprisals against the working class and the revolutionary part of the peasantry and intelligentsia. Fascism in foreign policy is chauvinism in its most rude form, cultivating zoological hatred of other nations. This is medieval barbarism and atrocity. This is unbridled aggression against other peoples and countries. ” He will say this in his speech “The offensive of fascism and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle for the unity of the working class against fascism” at the VII Congress of the Comintern on August 2, 1935 after returning from Leipzig.

Dimitrov not only defended himself, but showed the whole anti-human, predatory and criminal essence of fascism as “the shock fist of the international counter-revolution, as the main arsonist of the imperialist war, as the instigator of the crusade against the Soviet Union, the great fatherland of the working people of the whole world.”

On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria signed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact and openly joined the fascist bloc. From the very attack of the Nazi hordes on the USSR in Bulgaria, the first partisan detachments went into the mountains to prepared bases. They resolutely began an armed struggle against fascism. Fascist gangs again began to devastate villages and cities, looking for connected partisans. The time has come for constant surveillance, denunciations, arrests, tortures and killings. More than 100,000 victims are on the account of Bulgarian fascism, and its descendants today erect monuments to the "victims of communism" and claim that "there was no fascism in Bulgaria." Bulgaria became the naval base of Germany on the Black Sea, from where the landing parties went to the coastal cities of the Soviet Union. Treasury unions, youth organizations such as the Hitler Youth, nationalist organizations of legionnaires, warlords, warriors, cubists were created in the country ... Trade relations with the USSR were terminated, Bulgarian-Soviet societies were closed, and books and magazines from the USSR were banned. At the same time, the Germans shamelessly robbed the country that was their ally. Germany accounted for 72.5% of imports and 79.2% of the country's exports, a machine was delivered in Sofia that printed Bulgarian money distributed to German troops ...

The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Workers' Party headed for the organization of the armed  liberation struggle. Most of the Communists and Komsomol members moved to an illegal position. Formed battle groups and detachments that went into the mountains. Explosions of warehouses, fuel tanks, fires began in all cities and villages ... Groups of political emigrants illegally returned and were involved in the struggle. Police and gendarmerie constantly raided, identifying the Communists and Komsomol members, their assistants. The greater the defeat of the Germans on the Soviet fronts, the more severely the fascist apparatus in Bulgaria acted. At the end of 1942, when the victories of the Red Army broke the myth of the invincibility of the Nazis, the party began to create a single anti-fascist union - the DOMESTIC FRONT. PF committees were created throughout the country, and the PF newspaper was illegally published. More and more partisan units were created throughout the country. Bulgaria was divided into 12 operational zones with a single command. In September 1944, the command of the People’s Liberation Army sent an appeal to the Soviet soldiers: “We were waiting for you, brothers of the Red Army, every salute was given in our hearts in honor of your victories ... welcome to our borders! Your closeness and our will to fight the oppressors of the people is a guarantee that BULGARIA WILL BE FREE, INDEPENDENT AND DEMOCRATIC! ”

On September 9, 1944, a socialist revolution took place in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian army turned weapons against the Nazis. The government of the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, the Patriotic War of the Bulgarian people began.

75 years have passed. Bulgaria managed to build a socialist society with a developed industry and powerful agriculture. This small country produced 100,000-ton tankers, ranked first in Europe and second in the world in the production of electric and motocars, produced space equipment, computers (40% of computers in the CMEA countries were from Bulgaria), and digitally controlled metal cutting machines, it decisively went into the future, full of hopes and prospects, being on the list of 30 countries of the world exporting machinery and equipment ... By GDP, Bulgaria ranked 25th in the world.

Now - 78th place, with the highest poverty quota in the EU - 21.8%, the production of metal, ships, televisions, refrigerators, computers is at zero, the production of motorcycles and electric cars is almost stopped. Destroyed production in the industrial sector by 91% and in the agricultural sector by 95%.

So on the land of Bulgaria fell the atomic bomb of perestroika. The counter-revolution literally killed Bulgaria. A failure a hundred years ago, the complete destruction of all production, the brutal robbery of everything produced by socialism, the impoverishment - material and spiritual - that is what the counter-revolution brought to this beautiful country and its hardworking people. Half of the population fled in search of food, others eke out a miserable existence. And a gang of robbers gets the remaining crumbs, giving up the territory of the country to external invaders - NATO and the United States.

What the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and other EU countries did not agree to, oddly and outrageously it looks, was accepted by Bulgaria, a country that owes its very existence to Russia. The country, liberated from five centuries of slavery, subjected to massacre by the Ottoman Empire, received, thanks to Russia, the possibility of free development, for the third time finds itself in the camp of its enemies and the most active performer of the role of a mercenary.

On September 4-5, 2014, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of Bulgaria signed the VISIA 20-20 Program with the United States and swore allegiance to the United States and NATO, without asking the opinion of the people. In the same way as before, without holding a referendum, they signed the country's accession to the EU and NATO, declared Russia their official adversary. The media are full of hysterical attacks on Russia, there is a subscription on the demolition of the Soviet Army Monument in Sofia, Goebbels propaganda is working at full capacity. And there are people who believe this, who were inspired by fascist nonsense, mutilate the monuments of the Soviet Army, communists, partisans ...

   On the territory of Bulgaria, NATO ground exercises are taking place with the participation of Bulgarian, American and other NATO forces and military equipment - tanks, helicopters, etc. Four NATO headquarters are located here, military equipment, weapons, ammunition are constantly being delivered. Bulgaria accepts for training, exercises and tactical training of NATO allies, accepts Ukrainian fascist warriors for treatment and reconstruction, according to the NATO program, supplies them with weapons and ammunition. NATO and the United States use the country's territory for free as a springboard for preparing an attack on Russia, not hiding it at all.

Literally these days, the issue of the purchase by Bulgaria of eight American F-16 fighter aircraft specifically designed to drop freely falling (nuclear) bombs is being decided. The terms of the transaction are predatory. Bulgaria pays the full amount of the cost in advance for airplanes, which are only in the draft so far and which it will receive by 2023-2024. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev tried to veto the decision on this deal, but parlament Bulgaria rejected it ...






On Saturday, August 10, a sea landing was unloaded on the beaches of Varna, imitating the capture of "terrorists", helicopters roared low in the sky with a roar, in view of the coast, boats were launched, frightening adults and children, including many tourists from different countries.

And on August 8, several public organizations came out to protest for declaring Bulgaria a nuclear-free zone, against Bulgaria’s participation in the aggressions of NATO and the USA, against military bases and nuclear weapons depots that the US was planning to build. The generation that was born on the eve or with the beginning of capitalism is growing up, it is it that starts to resist, realizing that without it it will have no future.

Only 45 years of socialism in the whole history of Bulgaria were its star moment ...

       Ph.D. Alla Gigova, Chairperson of the Bulgarian Slavic Movement, Chairperson of the OPLOT BULGARIA organization, Chairperson of the EMAAF Executive Committee.

GERMANY'S ATTACK ON POLAND SEPTEMBER 1, 1939

The beginning of World War II

1939 is characterized by the frantic preparation of the European capitalist states for military confrontation - for a future world war. Hungary, Poland, Germany sought to grab a fatter piece. March 14 - Hungary, with the consent of Nazi Germany, occupied the entire Transcarpathian Ukraine with troops. March 15 - occupation of the whole territory of the Czech Republic by German troops. Creation of a puppet pro-German government in Slovakia. April 3 - Hitler approved the Weiss (White Plan) plan - an attack plan on Poland. Poland rejected the offer of the USSR on military assistance in case of aggression. April 28 - Termination by Germany of unilateral non-aggression pact with Poland and maritime agreement with England. August 26 - The completion of Nazi Germany’s preparations for an attack on Poland. The Soviet government, fighting for peace in Europe, on April 17 invited the governments of England and France to conclude a tripartite agreement on mutual assistance in case of aggression. On August 12-21, negotiations were held in Moscow between the military missions of the USSR, England and France on the conclusion of a mutual assistance agreement. However, on August 21, these contacts were interrupted due to the absurd position taken by England and France. The USSR had no choice but to conclude the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in two days. It was necessary to lead the country away from the impending war.

What was Poland during this terrible time? The innocent victim of the fascist "wolf"? Well no! In the period between the two world wars, Poland openly reoriented itself to Germany, which became especially evident after Hitler came to power. The dictator Pilsudski was no longer there, but the seasoned “Pilsudchina” remained the dominant force in pre-war Poland. Poland acted as Germany’s ally in Europe, supporting its position under the Munich Agreement and taking part in the partition of Czechoslovakia with Germany, capturing the Tieszyn Territory. At the same time, the Polish government impeded the process of creating a defensive anti-German bloc and reaching an agreement between the USSR, England and France. Here is a description of the situation given in August 1939 by General Dumenc, the head of the French military mission at the Moscow talks: “There is no doubt that the USSR wants to conclude a military pact and does not want us to turn this pact into an empty piece of paper that does not have a specific meaning. The failure of the negotiations is inevitable if Poland does not change its position. ”

The immediate cause for the confrontation between Poland and Germany was the question of Danzig and East Prussia. This territory, geographically separated from Germany, under the Versailles agreements was not part of Poland, but a free city under the control of the League of Nations. Hitler demanded that Poland in 1939 consent to the inclusion of Danzig-Gdansk in Germany and the provision of the last transport corridor for communication between the main part of Germany and East Prussia and the free movement of citizens between these parts of the country. The Germans would like to annex Danzig to Germany, even at the cost of a final rejection of Pomerania and ensuring Polish interests in Danzig, but Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, under pressure from Polish public opinion, did not allow any talk on this subject. Furious nationalism, the essence of the “Pilsudchina”, had its effect when they shouted “Poland - from sea to sea”.

It must be understood, of course, that the cause of the war itself was not at all in the dispute between Poland and Germany about Gdansk, but that inter-imperialist contradictions pushed Germany to revenge and further “world domination”, and her allies were preparing for a similar redivision of the world. Of paramount importance to all the capitalist powers was the question - which country, or group of countries will take on the mission of attacking the USSR, destroying the first country of socialism?

About the beginning of World War II. The key point here is the “attack” on the radio station in Glavice, or the Gliavice provocation — Germany’s staging of Poland’s attack on the German radio station in the city of Glavice. The operation was organized by Reinhard Heydrich and his subordinate - the head of the VI-F group (sabotage), SS Sturmbunführer Alfred Naujoks at the direction of Adolf Hitler. According to Heydrich’s plan, SS officers disguised as Polish military uniforms had to: attack the radio station in Gliwice (now Gliwice, Poland) and broadcast the anti-German appeal in Polish; attack the forestry in Pinchen north of Kreuzburg (now Kluczbork, Poland); in Hohlinden, on the border between Gleivitz and Ratibor (now Raciborz, Poland), destroy the customs point. The role of "those killed during the attack" was intended for concentration camp inmates shot dead by the SS men and dressed in Polish military uniforms.

On August 31, 1939 at 20-00 Naujoks with subordinates broke into the premises of the radio station. Seeing the worker Foytzik, he pointed his gun and shouted: "Hands up!" Forwards opened indiscriminate firing. Radio station workers tied up and locked in the basement. It takes a lot of time searching for a microphone. Soon the listeners of the radio station heard a “fiery appeal” in Polish against the background of the shots, the meaning of which was that “the time has come for the Polish war against Germany.” The whole operation took no more than 4 minutes. When leaving, Naujoks noticed the corpses in Polish uniform carefully laid out by Müller's people. The same thing happened in other places of the action. The next day, Hitler turned to the German people, saying that Poland had attacked German territory and that from that moment Germany was at war with Poland. Newspapers came out with flashy headlines. Speaking in the Reichstag, Hitler announced 14 clashes on the border, including three major ones. A few days before, Hitler cynically declared to his generals: “I will give a propaganda reason for starting a war, and whether it will be believable does not matter. Then they won’t ask the winner if he was telling the truth or not. ”

The Polish government had no choice but to declare general mobilization. The main headquarters of the Polish army believed that success in the war with Germany could only be ensured by the joint efforts of Poland and its Western allies. But Poland didn’t receive immediate operational help from the Western "allies" - England and France - being alone with its small and poorly armed army face-to-face with a German monster. Only on September 3, at 11 a.m., the British government declared war on Germany, and six hours later France did the same. Following England, the British dominions declared war on Germany: September 3 - Australia and New Zealand, September 6 - Union of South Africa, September 10 - Canada. Some European countries, as well as the United States, declared their neutrality.

In political and military circles of Germany, there was a serious doubt that an attack on Poland would lead to the entry into the war of England and France, and thereby would necessitate an armed struggle simultaneously on the eastern and western fronts. Fascist Germany was not ready for such a war. But immediately before the invasion of Poland, these fears began to dissipate. The political and military leadership of the Third Reich became increasingly convinced that in response to the invasion of Poland, England and France would not take any active action against Germany on the western front.

In Directive No. 1 signed by Hitler on August 31, 1939, it was forbidden to undertake any military operations in the west. Even if England and France entered the war, Army Group Ts deployed along the western border was instructed to conduct defensive battles with maximum energy savings and to ensure conditions for the successful completion of the campaign in Poland.

The decision of the then government of England was certain: not to fight in defense of Poland. The British government was knowingly and calmly preparing to commit treason against Poland. This, of course, was no secret to the German government. In a confidential conversation with Rosenberg, Baron de Ropp stated bluntly: "For England, Poland is more useful as a martyr than as an existing state." On September 8, the Polish military attache in Paris wrote in his report: “Until 7.9.39 10 hours in the west, there is virtually no war. Neither the French nor the Germans shoot at each other. In the same way, there are still no aviation actions ... My assessment: the French are not carrying out either further mobilization or further action and are awaiting the results of the battle in Poland. ”

The defense of the Polish army against the German hordes fell apart in a few days. On September 16, the Polish government fled to Romania, leaving the people and the country, which it brought to a national disaster with its short-sighted policies. Under these conditions, the Soviet government was forced to carry out diplomatic and military actions in order to protect the population of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus from fascist enslavement. The Government of the USSR issued an order to the Soviet Army on September 17, 1939 to cross the state border and prevent the further advance of Hitler aggression to the east. The separation of forces took place along the Curzon line, broken by Poland during the attack on Soviet Russia in 1920. The Curzon line was based on the principle of including only ethnographically Polish lands in Poland, proposed in 1919 by the Entente Supreme Council.

The defeat of Poland was followed by an eight-month pause in the military confrontation between Germany and England with France. The inaction of the allies on the western front, dubbed the “foney” or “sedentary” war, created the most favorable conditions for the unhindered mobilization deployment and increase the military power of the Wehrmacht. England and France, in their plans for war, counted on the Maginot’s “impenetrable” powerful defensive line in France. The German offensive on May 10, 1940 took the Allied forces by surprise. Hitler’s appeal was read at dawn in parts of the Wehrmacht, in which England and France were accused of treacherous politics and reported that "the battle beginning today decides the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years."

The Nazi offensive began with an air attack on airfields, command posts, military depots and the most important industrial centers of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Having captured these countries, German troops concentrated on France and the English expeditionary force there. They did not take the Maginot line - they simply bypassed it. The position of the Allied forces quickly became crisis. The campaign ended with the flight of “those who managed to escape” on English and French ships through the port of Dunkirk.

So, triumphantly for Hitler, the "overture" of World War II ended. Unconquered by him and furiously preparing for defense remained only one country - the Soviet Union.

S.V. Khristenko