To the President of the Russian Federation
V.V. Putin
To the President of the Republic of Belarus
A.G. Lukashenka
APPEAL
public associations that formed the Coordinating Council of the Left-Patriotic Forces of Belarus "UNITY"
on the accession of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic to the Union State of Russia and Belarus
Recently, the situation in the Donbass has become more and more heated. The Kiev government, which came to power in February 2014 as a result of a coup with the support of Western countries, primarily the United States, is not and does not intend to implement the Minsk Agreements on the Donbas: the ceasefire is not respected, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are opening fire on the People's Republic of Donetsk (DPR), the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), from which the civilian population suffers most.
The actions of the Supreme Armed Forces are war crimes that surpass in their villainous genocide and barbarity against the citizens of Europe, carried out by the fascists during the World War II (the Nazis of the city who considered theirs not bombed). Moreover, taking advantage of the respite received as a result of the conclusion of the Minsk agreements on the Donbass, the Kiev regime is re-equipping its armed forces (including through the supply of lethal weapons from the US), openly declaring Russia an aggressor country, pulling tank columns to the line of separation of the APU and the militia of the DPR-LPR, i.e. is preparing for an aggressive war.
The aggravation of the situation in the Donbas reached its extreme limit after the vile murder of the Head of the People's Democratic Republic of Ukraine Alexander Zakharchenko by Kiev special services. This murder once again showed that, firstly, the Kiev neo-Bandits, dependent on Western puppeteers, are not going to implement the Minsk agreements, and secondly, they do not consider the population of the DPR and LPR as their own people. They are preparing for the most brutal "sweep" of the territory of the republics in the event of their capture. Thus, we can conclude: while the power in Kiev is in the hands of a pro-fascist government, it will not leave the rebellious republics in peace.
Therefore, we appeal to you, Vladimir Vladimirovich and Alexander Grigorievich, with the appeal:
1.Based on the norms of international law, ensure the recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, whose population on indisputably legitimate referendums on May 11, 2014, overwhelmingly voted (89.07% in the People's Republic of Donbass and 90.53% in the People's Republic Lugansk).
As is known, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of December 16, 1966 (in both pacts - Article 1) stipulate: "All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of this right, they freely establish their political status and freely provide their economic, social and cultural development ... ". And this right was realized by the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
2. In view of the historical gravitation of the Donbas people towards Russia and the appeal of the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic to the Russian leadership with a request to include the Donetsk republics in the Russian Federation, initiate the process of joining the Union State of Russia and Belarus by the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic.
This process should become a catalyst for further integration of the former Soviet republics, which will contribute to their economic development and peaceful coexistence.
Historical experience has repeatedly confirmed: the prosperity of our peoples, first of all, fraternal East Slavic - in their unity.
from the Heads of public associations that formed the Coordinating Council of the Left-Patriotic Forces of Belarus "UNITY":
V.B. Zelikov, Chairman of the Republican
Civil Committee of the Patriotic Social Union "Fatherland"
V.V. Draco, Chairman of the Republican Council of the Public Association "For Democracy, Social Progress and Justice"
deputy of the House of Representatives
The National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus I,
Chairman of the Information Commission
policy and interaction with public
associations of the Parliamentary Assembly
The Union of Belarus and Russia (1997 - 2000)
L.E. Shkolnikov, Secretary-coordinator
Republican public association
"For the Union and the Communist Party of the Union"
S.A. Okruzhko, Chairman of the Belarusian Republican Branch of the International Union of Soviet Officers named after Hero of the Soviet Union, Admiral NI Khovrin
B.F. Bokov, Major-General in Retirement, participant
Great Patriotic War,
Honorary Chairman of the Public
association "Victors" for relations with the cities-heroes
G.I. Simanovsky, Secretary of the Coordination
Council of Left-Patriotic Organizations
Of Belarus "UNITY"
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Stalin's Address to the People
September 2, 1945
Comrades! Fellow countrymen and countrywomen!
Today, September 2, political and military representatives of Japan signed an act of unconditional surrender. Utterly defeated on sea and land, and completely surrounded by the armed forces of the United Nations, Japan has admitted defeat and has laid down her arms.
Two hotbeds of world fascism and world aggression had been formed on the eve of the present World War: Germany in the West and Japan in the East. It was they who unleashed the Second World War. It was they who brought mankind and civilization to the brink of doom. The hotbed of world aggression in the West was destroyed four months ago and, as a result, Uermany was forced to capitulate. Four months later the hotbed of aggression in the East was destroyed and as a res1', Japan, Germany's principal ally, was also compelled to sign an act of capitulation.
This signifies the end of the Second World War.
Now we can say that the conditions necessary for peace all over the world have been gained.
It must be observed that the Japanese aggressors inflicted damage not only on our Allies - China, the U.S.A. and Great Britain. They also inflicted extremely grave damage on our country. That is why we have a seperate account to settle with Japan.
Japan commenced her aggression against our country as far back as 1904,during the Russo -Japanese War. As we know, in February 1904, when negotiations between Japan and Russia were still proceeding, Japan, taking advantage of the weakness of the tsarist government, suddenly and perfidiously, without declaring war, fell upon our country and attacked the Russian fleet in the region of Port Arthur with the object of putting a number of Russian warships out of action and thereby creating an advantageous position for her fleet. She did, indeed, put out of action three Russian first-class warships. It is characteristic that 37 years later Japan played exactly the same perfidious trick against the United States when, in 1941, she attacked the United States naval base in Pearl Harbour and put a number of American battleships out of action. As we know, in the war against Japan, Russia was defeated. Japan took advantage of the defeat of tsarist Russia to seize from Russia the southern part of Sakhalin and establish herself on the Kuril Islands, thereby putting the lock on all our country's outlets to the ocean in the East, which meant also all outlets to the ports of Sovfet Kamchatka and Soviet Chukotka. It was obvious that Japan was aiming to deprive Russia of the whole of her Far East.
But this does not exhaust the list of Japan's aggressive operations against our country. In 1918, after the Soviet system was established in our country, Japan, taking advantage of the hostility then displayed towards the Land of the Soviets by Great Britain, France and the United States, and leaning upon them, again attacked our country, occupied the Far East and for four years tormented our people and looted the Soviet Far East.
Nor is this all. In 1938 Japan attacked our country again, in the region of Lake Hasan, near Vladivostok, with the object of surrounding Vladivostok; and in the following year Japan repeated her attack in another place, in the region of the Mongolian People's Republic, near Khalkin-gol, with the object of breaking into Soviet territory, severing our Siberian Railway and cutting off the Far East from Russia.
True, Japan's attacks in the regions of Hasan and Khalkin-gol were liquidated by the Soviet troops, to the extreme humiliation of the Japanese. Japanese military intervention in 1918-1922 was liquidated with equal success and Japanese invaders were expelled from our Far Eastern regions. But the defeat of the Russian troops in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War left bitter memories in the minds of our people. It lay like a black stain on our country. Our people believed in and waited for the day when Japan would be defeated and the stain would be wiped out. We of the older generation waited for this day for forty years, and now this day has arrived. Today Japan admitted defeat and signed an act of unconditional surrender.
This means that the southern part of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands revert to the Soviet Union and henceforth will serve not as a barrier between the Soviet Union and the ocean and as a base for Japanese attack upon our Far East but as a direct means of communication between the Soviet Union and the ocean and a base for the defence of our country against Japanese aggression.
Our Soviet people spared neither strength nor labour for the sake of victory.We experienced extremely hard years. But now everyone of us can say: We have won. Henceforth we can regard our country as being free from the menace of German invasion in the West and of Japanese invasion in the East. The long awaited peace for the peoples of all the world has come.
I congratulate you, my dear fellow countrymen and country-women, on this great victory, on the successful termination of the war, and on- the ushering in of peace all over the world!
Glory to the armed forces of the Soviet Union, the United States of America, China and Great Britain which achieved victory over Japan!
Glory to our Far Eastern troops and our Pacific Fleet, which upheld the honour and dignity of our country!
Glory to our great people, the victorious people!
Eternal glory to the heroes who fell fighting for the honour and victory of our country! May our country flourish and prosper!
("Soviet Calendar 1917 - 1947")
Comrades! Fellow countrymen and countrywomen!
Today, September 2, political and military representatives of Japan signed an act of unconditional surrender. Utterly defeated on sea and land, and completely surrounded by the armed forces of the United Nations, Japan has admitted defeat and has laid down her arms.
Two hotbeds of world fascism and world aggression had been formed on the eve of the present World War: Germany in the West and Japan in the East. It was they who unleashed the Second World War. It was they who brought mankind and civilization to the brink of doom. The hotbed of world aggression in the West was destroyed four months ago and, as a result, Uermany was forced to capitulate. Four months later the hotbed of aggression in the East was destroyed and as a res1', Japan, Germany's principal ally, was also compelled to sign an act of capitulation.
This signifies the end of the Second World War.
Now we can say that the conditions necessary for peace all over the world have been gained.
It must be observed that the Japanese aggressors inflicted damage not only on our Allies - China, the U.S.A. and Great Britain. They also inflicted extremely grave damage on our country. That is why we have a seperate account to settle with Japan.
Japan commenced her aggression against our country as far back as 1904,during the Russo -Japanese War. As we know, in February 1904, when negotiations between Japan and Russia were still proceeding, Japan, taking advantage of the weakness of the tsarist government, suddenly and perfidiously, without declaring war, fell upon our country and attacked the Russian fleet in the region of Port Arthur with the object of putting a number of Russian warships out of action and thereby creating an advantageous position for her fleet. She did, indeed, put out of action three Russian first-class warships. It is characteristic that 37 years later Japan played exactly the same perfidious trick against the United States when, in 1941, she attacked the United States naval base in Pearl Harbour and put a number of American battleships out of action. As we know, in the war against Japan, Russia was defeated. Japan took advantage of the defeat of tsarist Russia to seize from Russia the southern part of Sakhalin and establish herself on the Kuril Islands, thereby putting the lock on all our country's outlets to the ocean in the East, which meant also all outlets to the ports of Sovfet Kamchatka and Soviet Chukotka. It was obvious that Japan was aiming to deprive Russia of the whole of her Far East.
But this does not exhaust the list of Japan's aggressive operations against our country. In 1918, after the Soviet system was established in our country, Japan, taking advantage of the hostility then displayed towards the Land of the Soviets by Great Britain, France and the United States, and leaning upon them, again attacked our country, occupied the Far East and for four years tormented our people and looted the Soviet Far East.
Nor is this all. In 1938 Japan attacked our country again, in the region of Lake Hasan, near Vladivostok, with the object of surrounding Vladivostok; and in the following year Japan repeated her attack in another place, in the region of the Mongolian People's Republic, near Khalkin-gol, with the object of breaking into Soviet territory, severing our Siberian Railway and cutting off the Far East from Russia.
True, Japan's attacks in the regions of Hasan and Khalkin-gol were liquidated by the Soviet troops, to the extreme humiliation of the Japanese. Japanese military intervention in 1918-1922 was liquidated with equal success and Japanese invaders were expelled from our Far Eastern regions. But the defeat of the Russian troops in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War left bitter memories in the minds of our people. It lay like a black stain on our country. Our people believed in and waited for the day when Japan would be defeated and the stain would be wiped out. We of the older generation waited for this day for forty years, and now this day has arrived. Today Japan admitted defeat and signed an act of unconditional surrender.
This means that the southern part of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands revert to the Soviet Union and henceforth will serve not as a barrier between the Soviet Union and the ocean and as a base for Japanese attack upon our Far East but as a direct means of communication between the Soviet Union and the ocean and a base for the defence of our country against Japanese aggression.
Our Soviet people spared neither strength nor labour for the sake of victory.We experienced extremely hard years. But now everyone of us can say: We have won. Henceforth we can regard our country as being free from the menace of German invasion in the West and of Japanese invasion in the East. The long awaited peace for the peoples of all the world has come.
I congratulate you, my dear fellow countrymen and country-women, on this great victory, on the successful termination of the war, and on- the ushering in of peace all over the world!
Glory to the armed forces of the Soviet Union, the United States of America, China and Great Britain which achieved victory over Japan!
Glory to our Far Eastern troops and our Pacific Fleet, which upheld the honour and dignity of our country!
Glory to our great people, the victorious people!
Eternal glory to the heroes who fell fighting for the honour and victory of our country! May our country flourish and prosper!
("Soviet Calendar 1917 - 1947")
“No matter how great the challenges, our people will forever defend the Socialist Revolution”
Author: Raúl Castro Ruz | internet@granma.cu
august 2, 2018 15:08:17
Speech by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, at the central act to mark the 65th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons, at Ciudad Escolar 26 de Julio, Santiago de Cuba, July 26, 2018, Year 60 of the Revolution.
(Council of State transcript / GI translation)
Santiago women and men;
Compatriots:
As I anticipated in December of last year, today I will offer the central remarks of the national act to mark the 65th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons.
None of us who had the privilege of participating in these actions, under the command of Fidel, could have dreamed then that we would be alive today, in a free, independent, sovereign country, with a socialist Revolution in power and a united people, ready to defend the work undertaken, the fruit of the sacrifice and bloodshed of various generations of Cubans.
We celebrate this 65th anniversary in Santiago de Cuba not only due to its history, but also in recognition of the work undertaken in the province to benefit the people.
Under the leadership of compañero Lázaro Expósito Cantro, first secretary of the Party Provincial Committee (applause), in close liaison with the government headed by Council of State Vice President Beatriz Johnson Urrutia (applause), comprehensive efforts have been deployed on several fronts of the economy, which have led to an increased supply of quality and affordable goods and services to the population.
Sustained progress is being made in the housing program with the use of different technologies and initiatives in the use of local construction materials; prioritized investments of national importance are advancing at a good pace, such as the multipurpose port terminal and San Luis warehouses.
Work is also ongoing on the creation of conditions to increase exports of fruit, rum, lobster, and aquaculture products.
Commercial activity is being reordered through local development projects, which grant greater autonomy to municipalities in the management and satisfaction of the population’s demands, taking advantage of their own resources, which translates into greater contributions to the budget and ensures sustaining what has been achieved and continuing to invest in development.
The enthusiasm of the people of Santiago and the entire province is palpable; however, much remains to be done in the production and services sphere to efficiently generate wealth and continue to raise the quality of life of the people, and make a reality the goal of an increasingly beautiful, clean, orderly and disciplined city of Santiago de Cuba, worthy of guarding the remains of many of the greatest children of the Cuban nation, among whom are our national hero, the Father and Mother of the Homeland, and the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution. (Applause)
In the coming months, we will commemorate important historic events, among them, the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the struggles for the homeland’s independence, on October 10, 1868, and the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, January 1, 1959, an occasion on which the Mambis did enter Santiago victorious, to definitively remain alongside the people.
Just four days ago, the National Assembly approved the draft Constitution of the Republic, which will be the subject of a broad popular consultation in the coming months and, with the opinions and proposals that emerge from that democratic process, will be analyzed again in Parliament to draft the final text that will be submitted to a referendum, through the direct and secret vote of each citizen, for its approval and subsequent proclamation.
The Constitution of the Republic is the fundamental law on which the state is based, and thus is the most important legal and political document of any country, since it defines the foundations of the nation, the structure of powers and their scope, as well as guaranteeing the rights and duties of citizens.
The current Constitution, approved 42 years ago in a national and international scenario that was very different from the current one, needs to be reformed, with the purpose of including the socioeconomic transformations implemented in accordance with the agreements adopted in the Sixth and Seventh Congresses of the Communist Party of Cuba.
A transcendental political and democratic exercise will begin, the success of which will depend, in the first place, on the active and committed participation of Cubans, under the leadership of the Communist Party and with the support of the Young Communist League and mass organizations, in which each citizen must understand the need for and scope of the changes that we must introduce in the Constitution, in order to guarantee the irrevocable nature of socialism and the continuity of the Revolution.
We do not ignore the complexities that characterize the current internal and external scenario.
As for the economy, as President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated when speaking at the close of the recent period of sessions of the National Assembly, a tense situation continues with regard to external finances, as a consequence of the impact on expected income from exports of sugar and tourism, caused by a prolonged drought, the devastating Hurricane Irma and unseasonal heavy rainfall, first, and then Subtropical Storm Alberto.
Added to this was the strengthening of the U.S. blockade and its extraterritorial effects that impacted trade and financial transactions.
Despite these adverse factors, as previously reported, a slight growth of the economy was achieved in the first semester, which is an encouraging result; however, it is necessary to ensure exports and reduce all non-essential expenses to allocate available funds to products and services that generate hard currency earnings.
Always keep in mind that the quickest and easiest source of resources is saving, and therefore we must ensure that this stops being a mere slogan to become a standard of conduct for cadres and workers at all levels.
Turning to the situation that is developing in our continent, I must point out that at the beginning of this century, as part of the resistance and struggle of the peoples against the terrible effects of neoliberal models, several progressive and leftist forces came to power that encouraged Latin American and Caribbean unity and integration. In this context, the imperialist project of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, known as the FTAA, was defeated and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) emerged.
In 15 years, 60 million people were lifted from poverty and more than three million were taught to read and write, as illiteracy was eliminated in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. More than 20,000 Latin American and Caribbean doctors also graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine. Sight was restored to 2,900,000 foreign patients through Operation Miracle, as well as over a million Cubans. With Venezuela’s generous contribution Petrocaribe emerged.
The new progressive governments broke with decades of limited sovereignty and subordination to imperialist power, and created favorable conditions to advance regional integration, on establishing organizations without the aegis of the United States, such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), where governments of different political tendencies came together under the principle of “unity within diversity”; and Mercosur was revived.
The successful path of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the participation of all its member states in CELAC, and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), as well as the membership of some in ALBA, contributed to the advance of this regional unity.
Heads of state and government of Latin America and the Caribbean signed in Havana, in January 2014, the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, which committed them to fully respect the inalienable right of every state to choose its political, economic, social and cultural system, not to intervene in the internal affairs of any state, and to observe the principles of national sovereignty, equality of rights and self-determination of the peoples, as well as the peaceful solution of differences, while it proscribed the threat and use of force.
This situation was not to the liking of Washington power circles, which implemented unconventional warfare methods to prevent the continuity or hinder the return of progressive governments, orchestrated coups, first a military coup to overthrow President Zelaya in Honduras, and then parliamentary/judicial coups against Lugo in Paraguay and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. They deployed the monopoly control of the media in the interest of promoting rigged and politically motivated judicial processes, as well as misrepresentation and smear campaigns against figures and organizations of the left.
The right also managed to recover political power in some countries through electoral triumphs, some of them fraudulent and others on the basis of political and technological manipulation, the falsification of economic figures and intimidation campaigns with the support of the hegemonic media.
As was to be expected, they didn’t hesitate to dismantle the social policies of broad popular benefit; to use the judicial branch, under the pretext of confronting corruption, for the criminalization of left forces and the imprisonment of progressive leaders.
A few months ago, the United States government declared, without the slightest restraint, the full validity of the Monroe Doctrine, which is summarized in the phrase “America for the Americans” – naturally, those of the North – which reserves for Latin American and Caribbean nations a status of dependency and submission to imperialist interests. This is demonstrated by its aggressive and interventionist actions, the deployment of military forces and the constant search for new bases in the region.
One of its intentions is to reverse the gains made in integration and the exercise of sovereignty over natural resources to impose its racist, supremacist agenda against the peoples, through a neoliberal offensive aimed at destroying a decade of development and widening the gaps in this, the most unequal region on the planet.
On the other hand, the United States, with the complicity of certain governments, has attempted to reinvigorate the OAS, turning it into the setting for the onslaught against Venezuela. When, due to the dignified attitude of a large group of nations, they did not achieve their aims, they formed officious groupings of countries, to arrange unilateral coercive measures and other interventionist actions, undermine regional unity, contain CELAC, and paralyze UNASUR.
These events demonstrate once again that the path is never to neglect the unity of revolutionaries and to always maintain the struggle, keeping in mind that our adversaries never give up in the effort to restore models of exclusion and exploitation, and that when the supposed values and rules of the sacrosanct representative democracy do not serve them to reach power, they do not hesitate to resort to coup d’états, violence, or even war.
The recently concluded 24th Meeting of the São Paulo Forum in Havana, with the attendance of representatives from all continents, was an essential space for political coordination faced with the need to redirect the struggles of leftist political forces and social movements. It’s Final Declaration “Our America ready to fight” is a truly united program of action in the face of the dangers to peace and the threats and opportunities for the political forces of the left and popular and social movements in the region.
I take this opportunity to reiterate our solidarity with the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution, led by President Nicolás Maduro Moros.
To Nicaragua, to the Sandinista National Liberation Front and to President Daniel Ortega, we express the unwavering solidarity of our people, Party and government.
We demand the release of compañero Lula da Silva and his right to be the presidential candidate of the Workers’ Party (applause), as constantly demanded by thousands of Brazilians and numerous organizations around the world.
If tomorrow elections were held in Brazil, there is no doubt that Lula would win the elections in the first round. (Applause) That’s why he is in prison.
We congratulate the beloved Mexican people and President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador for this historic result.
I will now refer to relations with the United States, a country with which formal diplomatic ties are maintained, official communication channels, several bilateral agreements, and mutually beneficial cooperation within a limited group of areas.
A few days after the announcement of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, on December 17, 2014, we noted from our Parliament, a few days later, that there were profound differences between the governments of Cuba and the United States regarding the exercise of national sovereignty and conceptions of democracy, political models, and international relations. However, we reiterated our readiness for respectful and reciprocal dialogue on disagreements, and warned that Cuba should not be expected to renounce the ideas for which it had fought for over a century, in order to improve relations with the United States.
Since August last year, under the pretext of health complaints of its diplomats, in what some call sonic attacks, that is, noises that affect diplomats — they now also accuse China of the same — whose origin no one has been able to explain or prove, although they periodically repeat it, bilateral ties have deteriorated and 17 officials of our embassy in Washington were unjustly expelled and the majority of the staff of the diplomatic headquarters in Havana withdrawn, with the consequent paralysis of a large part of the visa processing procedures, to the detriment of travel to the United States by Cuban citizens.
Likewise, the extraterritorial application of the U.S. blockade has intensified, particularly the persecution of our financial transactions.
The occasion is propitious to recall the content of a Memorandum by a deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs — what would be here a deputy minister of foreign affairs to attend to issues of the Latin American region — named Lester Mallory, dated April 6, 1960, more than 58 years ago now, but it is an event that we Cubans must never forget, and for that reason I want to recall and quote verbatim some paragraphs or phrases:
“The majority of Cubans support Castro (...) There is no effective political opposition (…) The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship (…) every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba (…) denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” There were more recommendations to his central government.
I have never read anything more cynical than these words. This was, to remind you, on April 6, 1960, that is, one year and nine days before the bombings of April 15, 1961, a prelude to the Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) invasion.
Thus emerged in 1959, the same year of the triumph, the long history of attacks against our country, which today continue to be renewed.
At the same time, the public pronouncements of the main United States government officials regarding Cuba at this time are characterized by disrespect, aggressiveness, interventionism, and the crude manipulation of historical truth. Tens of millions of dollars are allocated each year, approved in its budgets, to promote subversion in an effort to provoke political changes contrary to the constitutional order of our country.
This past June, a U.S. diplomatic official, speaking at a meeting of the Organization of American States, the discredited OAS, said: “The countries of the Americas have to accept that Cuba is the mother of all evils in terms of weakening democracy on the continent and human rights violations.” A few days ago, the aforementioned individual repeated the same aggressive approach toward our country.
These positions also remind us of the failed “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba,” created by the then President George W. Bush who, drunk on the apparent victory in the second Iraq war, even went so far as to appoint a U.S. coordinator who would manage Cuba after being occupied, just as was the practice in the good old days of the Yankee gunboats across Latin America.
It is no coincidence that it is reiterated in the draft of our Constitution that the defense of the socialist homeland is the greatest honor and supreme duty of every Cuban, and incorporated is that the strategic conception of the defense of the nation is upheld by the doctrine of the war of the entire people.
We Cubans are a peaceful and friendly people; we do not threaten anyone, many times we have said that for us to avoid a war is tantamount to winning it, but to that end we must shed rivers of sweat preparing ourselves to fight to victory if anyone tries to take over Cuba.
Once again, an adverse situation has developed and again the euphoria resurfaces among our enemies and the rush to realize the dreams of destroying the example of Cuba. It will not be the first time, nor the last, that the Cuban Revolution will have to face challenges and threats. We have run all risks and resisted undefeated for 60 years. (Applause)
For us, just as for Venezuela and Nicaragua, it is very clear that the siege is tightening and our people must be alert and ready to respond to each challenge with unity, firmness, optimism, and unwavering confidence in victory.
Since July 26, 1953, Cuban revolutionaries have forged themselves in an incessant battle and we have come this far by rising above setbacks and overcoming attacks of all kinds.
How couldn’t we recall the young people that a day like today were savagely tortured and killed after the failure of the action to lay siege to heaven, so as not to let the Apostle die in the year of his centenary.
In this same spot, 45 years ago, Fidel stated: “Moncada taught us to turn setbacks into victories. It was not the only bitter test of adversity, but nothing could contain the victorious struggle of our people. Trenches of ideas were more powerful than trenches of stones. It showed us the value of a doctrine, the strength of ideas, and left us the permanent lesson of perseverance and tenacity in just aims.”
And the Comandante en Jefe added: “Our heroic dead did not fall in vain. They demonstrated the duty to press onward, they fuelled the inextinguishable spirit of our souls, they accompanied us in prisons and in exile, they fought together with us in the war. We see them reborn in the new generations…” (Applause)
In the same year of 1959, a few months after the triumph of the First of January, we had to confront armed gangs organized and financed by the CIA, sabotages, hundreds of plans of attempts against the main leaders, especially against the leader of the Revolution, the economic, commercial, financial blockade, media campaigns, the Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) invasion, the October or missile crisis, the introduction of pests and diseases, multiple terrorist acts organized and financed by the United States government, resulting in thousands of fatalities and children of the homeland mutilated or incapacitated.
In the decade of the nineties, after the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp and faced with the implacable and opportunist onslaught of imperialism, enthusiastic about the longed-for collapse of the Revolution, we Cubans, amid enormous material scarcities, put to the test our unwavering capacity for resistance and the will to defend sovereignty, independence, and socialism.
That was possible thanks to the unequalled people we have and the unity forged by Fidel from the first years of struggle.
Today, 65 years after Moncada, with our independence already conquered and the permanent presence of Fidel among us, we can affirm that no matter how difficult the circumstances, no matter how great the challenges, our people will forever defend their Socialist Revolution. History has shown that we could, we can, and it will always be possible! (Applause)
Already 65 years have passed since Moncada, a large majority of the population was born after these events of which we are speaking. As you know, the Revolution triumphed five years, five months and five days after Moncada, therefore, there are five months and five days left to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the triumph of our Revolution (applause), and to celebrate or commemorate such an important date, that day we will meet again here in Santiago. (Applause)
Thank you very much.
Look at what a beautiful sunrise, with the mountains of the Sierra Maestra watching over us, it continues here to the front, goes on northeast to the Gran Piedra and concludes in the limits of the province of Guantánamo. And as the geographers establish, Santiago de Cuba is a completely mountainous city, surrounded by the Sierra Maestra, that is a pride of which we never speak.
Until next time! (Ovation)
Pensions - it's the cause of the youth!
I will not talk for long on this subject. The increase in the retirement age was made to the State Duma on June 16, 2018 by the decree of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev. This is almost the day after the opening of the World Cup in our country. Coincidence? No, a very thoughtful and cunning strategy. In the mass of people will be distracted from such a serious issue as the retirement age - after all, it is necessary to see football, cheer, drink something with a degree. "A drunk does not understand a sober man." So it turns out that people at this time will be as much as possible abstracted from this issue. And the government was safe: after all not the population was drinking! And so the president signed a decree banning any rallies during the championship. Once again I repeat: a very thoughtful and cunning strategy.
The question of retirement age is now, in August, and so everyone is on hearing. He reacted to a huge number of people throughout Russia. We can not say that there are a lot of them, but people take to the streets and oppose this bill much more often than, for example, during rallies "for fair elections".
The essence of this bill is the genocide. Here I will not even argue with such loud words. Many men do not live until 65. We will open the topic. According to the statistics of the FSSS (Federal Service of State Statistics), we have for 2017:
1 689 884 people were born (203 372 people less than in 2016);
The number of deaths amounted to 1,824,340 people (by 63,573 people less than in 2016);
Population decline by 134 456 people (in 2016 the increase of 5 343 people).
For other years, statistics say that we finally have a population growth, and just the birth rate over mortality began to increase since 2014. But let's not forget that in 2014 part of the Russian Federation became the Crimea, and, therefore, the population of the Crimea also began to be considered. Hence the increase. In fact, we have for the most part an endangered country. It's hard for our capitalists to raise the country from their knees, oh, how difficult it is. They could not increase the birth rate (there is a country to compare) - well, okay, at least provide normal old age to people and raise the standard of living. But it does not converge.
According to FSSS statistics, per capita monetary income of the population for 2017 is: 31477.4 rubles. Wherein:
the subsistence minimum for us per capita is 10 329 rubles,
for the able-bodied population - 11,163 rubles,
pensioners - 8506 rubles,
children - 10 160 rubles.
And people who live below the subsistence minimum in the country - 13.6% (19.3 million people). Let's speak frankly. To really live in our country, build a family, do not deny yourself a rest and holiday, we need to receive a month more than 100 000 rubles. The labor force of the workers in the enterprises on average is worth it.
According to FSSS statistics for 2017, 7.6% of the population in our country have monthly more than 70 000 rubles of income. Of course, we have even less billionaires and millionaires, but it's they who own 99% of the wealth and resources of our country. I will not forget to write that deputies from United Russia who almost unanimously adopted the antipopular bill in the first reading have a wage bill of 450,000 rubles each month. It, certainly, not earnings. This is profit! They do not plow in a mine or in a factory, they do not chop coal in their sweat and do not twist nuts for 30-60 thousand a month. They themselves should raise the retirement age, but not by 5-8, but by 15-18 years! And anyway, why should a pension with such a salary, and when you work with talk? They adopt such laws, based only on their position and their interests. No matter what they say at the elections, people's wisdom has long said everything. "The well-fed does not understand the hungry."
The power failed and social security of the population. But every year that there are no sanctions - then new benefits for the oligarchs. The government cares about them. The increase in the retirement age is not aimed at strengthening the economy or stimulating economic factors, but at destroying the population of our country, widening the gap between the rich and the poor, and shaking the political and economic integrity of the country. I wrote this to the fact that later the bourgeois government would not blame anyone for wanting to "rock the boat", but would look in the mirror.
In general, we must stop believing the words of officials. They do not consider that they should increase the standard of living, raise the birth rate, provide for old age. They came to power so that they had privileges and protection, so that they had all the laws on their side to go unpunished in any "scenario." They came to power when we were children, and some of us were not even in the world. They represent the interests of another class, some of them are representatives of this class. Class of large capitalists. We need them to be the backbone of their power. Despite the fact that officials and deputies can help some people in some way, in general our people are interesting to them only as an electorate, as a crowd, as a herd. This is exactly what the authorities want to turn us into.
In general, an example for those who will read my article and I would like to turn today not to the older generation, not to the middle-aged, namely to young guys and girls from 18 to 30 years.
Guys, we are very stuck with you, and everyone suffers from this. We are like a knight at the crossroads. On the one hand, the real world, the living world. On the other hand - the virtual world, we are so often and so boldly running away to, we are looking in there for rest, peace, there are no horrors of real life, and virtual horrors seem insignificant. In virtual worlds we are heroes ... But social networks, games on the Internet, anime, movies and drunken orgies are only the tip of the iceberg called "The Being of Youth in Our Country". Young guys and girls, whose parents can more or less afford to arrange a family life, such withdrawal from reality often seems harmless to others. But those who are deprived of parental care, this is much worse: banditry, hooliganism, violence, drunkenness and many, many defects of capitalist society in all its glory.
I urge everyone who is young to think about how they live. The youth will end, and then on the heels you will come the cruel reality of the world, which will not be nice and kind to you. You will take a hard life to the fullest. And the last thing that could console you, would give you a chance for a happy old age - you already take it away, it's a pension. Yes, now it is an increase in the retirement age, but in the near future, pensions can generally be abolished. If we do not fight for our rights. In youth, we must fight for the right to a decent old age! This is the essence, the cornerstone of the problems of today's youth. To change the world for the better - you need to do it better, fight for it, work hard, and without difficulty you will not catch a fish from the pond.
Without struggle it is impossible to live with dignity and happiness. Our ancestors proved this to the whole world in 1917. It is they who have changed the whole world for the better. Maybe you are not interested in the history of our country, you do not know about 1917, about the USSR and about those who are bourgeois. You'll find out. Learn not from us, but from the realities of life, which you will sooner or later be affected. But it's better early, because while you are young, while you have the power of youth, you can do much! And every minute leaves, but as N. Ostrovsky said: "The most precious thing for a person is life. It is given to him once, and it must be lived so that it would not be painfully painful for aimlessly lived years, so as not to shame the petty and petty past that, dying, I could say: all life and all the forces were given to the most important in the world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind." You have examples of real heroes, not online, who have lived and fought for your future, thanks to which you weave such a slavish existence. One great thinker and figure in 1907 wrote:
"A slave who is conscious of his slavish position and who is fighting against it is a revolutionary. The slave, unaware of his slavery and vegetating in the silent, unconscious and wordless slavish life, is simply a slave. A slave whose mouths are drooling, when he smugly describes the delights of slavish life and admires a kind and good master, is a slave, a boor. " (V.I. Lenin, Complete Works, vol. 16, p. 40).
What we now have is not life at all, it's a slavish existence! So throw off the chains from yourself, and stand up for the struggle for your and our future! Become those slaves who are fighting against their slavish existence! It is YOU - the future, YOU - to build and live, work and fight, only by STRUGGLE - you can achieve the result. We are Bolsheviks, young Bolsheviks, the same as you, your age. And we are already fighting, as we can. And we give you a hand. We can and therefore should help each other. You just need to make a decision, take the first step. Any way is complicated and not simple. But the best way is through the thorns to the stars, than from the stars to decay and the grave!
Be worthy of your ancestors, fight for the bright future of your country, the working people and all of humanity!
P.Yu.Serpov
On raising the retirement age: on the occasion of the speech of V.V. Putin on August 29, 2018.
On the day
The protracted reform to raise the retirement age in the Russian Federation stumbled upon sharp criticism from the population. And the last word, as it is customary to say in such cases, remained for the first person of Russia. The expectations were great, since President Putin V.V. made over the past six months a lot of statements in which he saw the way out of the crisis in a significant increase in labor productivity. Which no one disputed.
Actually, for Russia it is not news how to increase labor productivity, for, relying on the postwar experience of the Soviet Union, one can recall an instructive example of increasing labor productivity immediately after the victory over fascist Germany in 1945. Then the country of the first of the victor countries abolished the ration cards in 1947 and showed a vivid example of how to work and raise the standard of living of the population ... Although our allies did not suffer such great losses in human and economic terms as the USSR, they were able to abolished their ration coupon only in 1951.
We must not forget that the Soviet Union soon experienced an atomic bomb in 1949 and declared about nuclear parity in the world. And then the rocket was launched into space, which demonstrated the creation of the entire nuclear missile shield of the country. Of course, such economic successes are unlikely to have succeeded if in the Soviet Union words were voiced about increasing labor productivity. Although we can not forget that the words about the rapid construction of communism soon after the creation of the nuclear missile shield of the country poured out, as from a cornucopia, but it was already said by people who openly embarked on the collapse of the country. Therefore, politicians from N. Khrushchev to M. Gorbachev can not be compared here. Here it is necessary to be equal to the experience of the country in the war years, when output for the front and for victory grew every day. After all, the retirement age of 55 years for women and 60 years for men was taken by the military generation that won the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Of course, one can not help noticing that there was a vivid discussion in the State Duma of this pension reform, in which three non-governmental factions criticized the authorities for not doing anything to raise taxes on big business, whose profits are striking in the face of their abyss-the gap between the incomes of the richest 10% of the population and the poorest 10%. V. Putin only said that it is useless to raise the tax and do it in 20%, since these payments for pensioners will last for 6 days ... But after all, the conversation was about the incomes of the oligarchs much more significant, and therefore it would not be a sin to rip them. Then payments could be for pensioners much longer than 6 days ...
Therefore, returning to the speech of V.Putin on August 29, 2018, most of all I remember the words that now "we have to overcome the consequences of the shocks of the 90s". But after all, on the basis of these shocks, the Russian oligarchy was created, which now lives and does nicely out of it and, of course, offers no suggestions on mitigating the pension reform. In this sense, Putin only demonstrated complete solidarity with the oligarchs and essentially pulled them closer to his body.
Of course, V. Putin "forgot" in his address to the people of the Russian Federation to recollect statements in favor of raising labor productivity, insofar as the population of the Russian Federation has a deep historical experience. One gets the impression that the Russian president is making statements on this part, but what he really does not know about the productivity of labor. It turns out that again "everything is decided by the market", the sanctions on which threaten every day to overturn the delicate balance that has been established recently. But opposition economists in this market are predicting the inevitable collapse of the ruble. Then it certainly will not be up to pensioners ...
In our opinion, in order to improve the well-being of the entire population, and not just retirees, we must abandon the criminal liberal economic course pursued by the government of D. Medvedev. But V. Putin will never go for it ... That is why the issue of improving the life of pensioners by implementing the pension reform proposed by the current government of the Russian Federation for any of its crafty embellishments remains UNSOLVABLE ...
Economic Observer of the Central Committee of the AUCPB
The protracted reform to raise the retirement age in the Russian Federation stumbled upon sharp criticism from the population. And the last word, as it is customary to say in such cases, remained for the first person of Russia. The expectations were great, since President Putin V.V. made over the past six months a lot of statements in which he saw the way out of the crisis in a significant increase in labor productivity. Which no one disputed.
Actually, for Russia it is not news how to increase labor productivity, for, relying on the postwar experience of the Soviet Union, one can recall an instructive example of increasing labor productivity immediately after the victory over fascist Germany in 1945. Then the country of the first of the victor countries abolished the ration cards in 1947 and showed a vivid example of how to work and raise the standard of living of the population ... Although our allies did not suffer such great losses in human and economic terms as the USSR, they were able to abolished their ration coupon only in 1951.
We must not forget that the Soviet Union soon experienced an atomic bomb in 1949 and declared about nuclear parity in the world. And then the rocket was launched into space, which demonstrated the creation of the entire nuclear missile shield of the country. Of course, such economic successes are unlikely to have succeeded if in the Soviet Union words were voiced about increasing labor productivity. Although we can not forget that the words about the rapid construction of communism soon after the creation of the nuclear missile shield of the country poured out, as from a cornucopia, but it was already said by people who openly embarked on the collapse of the country. Therefore, politicians from N. Khrushchev to M. Gorbachev can not be compared here. Here it is necessary to be equal to the experience of the country in the war years, when output for the front and for victory grew every day. After all, the retirement age of 55 years for women and 60 years for men was taken by the military generation that won the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Of course, one can not help noticing that there was a vivid discussion in the State Duma of this pension reform, in which three non-governmental factions criticized the authorities for not doing anything to raise taxes on big business, whose profits are striking in the face of their abyss-the gap between the incomes of the richest 10% of the population and the poorest 10%. V. Putin only said that it is useless to raise the tax and do it in 20%, since these payments for pensioners will last for 6 days ... But after all, the conversation was about the incomes of the oligarchs much more significant, and therefore it would not be a sin to rip them. Then payments could be for pensioners much longer than 6 days ...
Therefore, returning to the speech of V.Putin on August 29, 2018, most of all I remember the words that now "we have to overcome the consequences of the shocks of the 90s". But after all, on the basis of these shocks, the Russian oligarchy was created, which now lives and does nicely out of it and, of course, offers no suggestions on mitigating the pension reform. In this sense, Putin only demonstrated complete solidarity with the oligarchs and essentially pulled them closer to his body.
Of course, V. Putin "forgot" in his address to the people of the Russian Federation to recollect statements in favor of raising labor productivity, insofar as the population of the Russian Federation has a deep historical experience. One gets the impression that the Russian president is making statements on this part, but what he really does not know about the productivity of labor. It turns out that again "everything is decided by the market", the sanctions on which threaten every day to overturn the delicate balance that has been established recently. But opposition economists in this market are predicting the inevitable collapse of the ruble. Then it certainly will not be up to pensioners ...
In our opinion, in order to improve the well-being of the entire population, and not just retirees, we must abandon the criminal liberal economic course pursued by the government of D. Medvedev. But V. Putin will never go for it ... That is why the issue of improving the life of pensioners by implementing the pension reform proposed by the current government of the Russian Federation for any of its crafty embellishments remains UNSOLVABLE ...
Economic Observer of the Central Committee of the AUCPB
Monday, September 3, 2018
27 years ago the counterrevolution was realized in the USSR
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the events of August 1991 as an attempt at a coup, Lenta.ru reported May 22. 27 years ago Putin worked for the mayor of Leningrad A. Sobchak, who was on the side of Yeltsin. And at the same time he, being a lieutenant colonel of the KGB, was subordinate to V. Kryuchkov, who was a member of the State Committee for Emergency Situation (State Emergency Committee). Putin noted that he decided to stay with Sobchak, so as not to "rush back and forth." "And therefore, in this situation, the most correct thing for me is to write a report and resign, to which he [Sobchak] said to me:" OK, then do it. "I'll call Kryuchkov." The head of state added that the mayor really called and the report was signed.
The AUCPB calls the events of August 1991 not an attempt, but a real political coup, which was carried out by provocation with the State Emergency Committee. As a result of this provocation, the authorities concentrated on the supporters of the counter-revolution. From the May interview of the President of the Russian Federation, we can conclude that the Yeltsinists already considered acting the power of themselves, and no one else. Playing a performance for television cameras, the corrupt officials of the Gorbachev Soviet Union portrayed the confrontation between the republican and allied authorities, but at the same time calmly solved personnel issues through personal phone calls. Let's remember this.
And what is GKChP? We are often told that this is a group of comrades who fought for the preservation of the USSR. But in August 1991, that USSR could no longer be preserved, its foundation was already destroyed by the "parade of sovereignties" and the law "On Property", back in 1990. In 1990, private property was legalized in the USSR and in the union republics, which led to the complete re-establishment of capitalism in the country. Property and power passed into the hands of the "new Russians", neo-bourgeoisie, and most of the officials of the USSR and the CPSU also went over to their side to preserve power and their privileges.
The putch GKChP put the entire Soviet Union before a false dichotomy (bifurcation). "Either you are for Yeltsin, or for Gorbachev!" - was inspired throughout the RSFSR. Gorbachevshchina for 6 years was fed up with everything. But the alternative was advancing local anti-Soviet authorities. This is so - in fact in 1991 the authorities of the republics of the USSR practically all worked against the USSR. Then the heads of the Soviet republics will become presidents of the CIS countries. This is about each such president, the phrase: "So he, crafty, paid a lot for the prettiest ! Himself wanted to reign and everything to own?!"
So, in 1991 the counterrevolutionaries finally seized power. In Russia they were Yeltsinists. They gained strength from the Gorbachevists, from the very beginning of Perestroika, and Yeltsin appeared in their chapter only at the end to become a bright charismatic alternative. Then everyone saw what kind of alternative it was! And then people were taught that there are only two centers of power, Gorbachevites and Yeltsinists. But both of them were counterrevolutionaries. They were all against socialism and for capitalism, and the disagreements between them were only in the one to whom that will be given in the division of power and property.
The power and property initially did not belong to Gorbachev's partocrats or Yeltsin's nouveau riche - all this was given to them free of charge, free of charge, from grandfathers and great-grandfathers who committed the Great October Socialist Revolution. The counterrevolutionaries spent 6 years brainwashing all the inhabitants of the USSR. Water and media were poured onto their mill (all the main editors obeyed A.N. Yakovlev!), And the cinema (remember S. Govorukhin's agitation "Can not Live Like That"?), And music (remember I. Talkov?).
And the Soviet people, in their mass, could not put up resistance to such an information war against them. When, from August 18 to 21, 1991, the State Emergency Committee organized a coup, the Soviet Union reasoned that it was "Moscow showdowns" and simply waited, whose will take. Tsarila was a petty-bourgeois philistine psychology: "my hut is from the outskirts." It still reigns in our society. It still keeps many people from social and political struggle.
And "satisfied" and "dissatisfied" like bread and spectacles. Then, in 1991, there was a spectacle. Yeltsin on the tank banned the activities of the Emergency Committee in Russia, and all the media exploded: look, the people are against communism, and the people's leader is ahead in the tank! Well, we already know the consequences.
Comrades! Do not believe liars from the media! In 2011, they returned to the old policy, and for 7 years they have been persuading us to choose either Putin or Navalny. This is the same false choice as "Yeltsin or Gorbachev," "Russia or the West." Do not choose between two evils! Choose a socialist revolution!
All that was won by our great-grandfathers in 1917-1920, which was saved by our grandfathers in 1941-1945, turned out to be in the hands of a handful of officials in 1991. From 1991 to 2018, around the anti-Soviet power grew and strengthened the class of owners - the bourgeoisie. In their private property - our land, water, mineral wealth, forests, plants, transportation, communications. It was for this purpose that privatization and "shock therapy" were conducted, so that from the laboring people could be taken away as much as possible. But if the power is again in the hands of the working people, then they will be able to regain all thier wealth!
Long live the re-creation of our Soviet homeland!
Ivan Kotran, Kuibyshev organization of the AUCPB
On the events of August 1991
N.A. Andreeva
In the second half of 1991, Gorbachev's perestroika crawled into a crisis. Capital, eager for political power, no longer suited the socialist phraseology of Gorby. The social democratic, chameleon way of restoring capitalism has exhausted its "perestroika" capabilities. Before Gorbachev's political bosses, the question arose about replacing this road with a radically authoritarian one, capable of giving a second wind to bourgeois reformism. This was also demanded by the regrouping of forces in the economically dominant bourgeoisie. The question arose: how to modernize the restoration process? The agency of the bourgeoisie, thirsting for power, comes to the rescue. It provokes the need to introduce a state of emergency, for the requirement of establishing an elementary order in the country has become universal.
The essence of the provocation in August 1991 was that, in addition to the President of the USSR, resting in Foros, he imposed a state of emergency on the initiative of the chekachepists (Yanaev, Yazov, Kryuchkov, Lukyanov, Pavlov and others). When the state of emergency was announced, Gorbachev's announcement was immediately followed by Gorbachev's "Foros Prisoner", accusations of loyal fellow chelators in the seizure of power, a coup d'état and even a "military coup" ... Of course, there was no coup in Moscow, not even with taking into account three "ritual sacrifices", specially organized by Yeltsinists. The counter-revolution simply overthrew all the first deputies of Gorbachev. The result of this provocation was the tragedy of hundreds of millions of workers who were ripped out of the remnants of power, the Constitution of the USSR was trampled undermined, the prestige of the Soviet Armed Forces and state security agencies was undermined and the activities of the CPSU were soon banned.
The direct consequence of the bourgeois political coup in August 1991 was two events.
First. The counter-revolution went beyond the Soviet Union. At the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchev argued that the socialist revolution should not be exported to neighboring countries. Khrushchev's heirs-Gorbachevites through the USSR carried out the export of the bourgeois counter-revolution to the Eastern European countries of socialism. The participation of the Gorbachevites determined the face of the "velvet revolutions" in Europe and the alignment of political forces in the former socialist states. The result: the weakening of the world socialist system, the deterioration of the situation in the international communist movement and the sharp change in the balance of forces in the international arena in favor of imperialism. This is one of the international aspects of the temporary victory of the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR.
The second. The natural result of the August coup was the Belovezhsky conspiracy of the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. This unconstitutional criminal conspiracy disorganized the Soviet Union into "sovereign" states, which are now becoming a raw material appendage of international capital and the dependent countries of the "third world". At the same time, the results of the All-Union referendum on March 17, 1991, at which 76% of the participants voted for a single Soviet Union were brazenly ignored. The Belovezhsky collusion deprived the Soviet people of its great homeland, and the world community - a country that was the vector and beacon of social progress. Violation of the existing balance and bipolarity of the world objectively leads to an increase in the threat of a third world war.
Such is the tragic national aspect of the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR.
(from the Collection of Selected Articles and N.A. Andreeva's speeches "For Bolshevism inside the Communist Movement", Leningrad, 1995, pp. 35-36)
In the second half of 1991, Gorbachev's perestroika crawled into a crisis. Capital, eager for political power, no longer suited the socialist phraseology of Gorby. The social democratic, chameleon way of restoring capitalism has exhausted its "perestroika" capabilities. Before Gorbachev's political bosses, the question arose about replacing this road with a radically authoritarian one, capable of giving a second wind to bourgeois reformism. This was also demanded by the regrouping of forces in the economically dominant bourgeoisie. The question arose: how to modernize the restoration process? The agency of the bourgeoisie, thirsting for power, comes to the rescue. It provokes the need to introduce a state of emergency, for the requirement of establishing an elementary order in the country has become universal.
The essence of the provocation in August 1991 was that, in addition to the President of the USSR, resting in Foros, he imposed a state of emergency on the initiative of the chekachepists (Yanaev, Yazov, Kryuchkov, Lukyanov, Pavlov and others). When the state of emergency was announced, Gorbachev's announcement was immediately followed by Gorbachev's "Foros Prisoner", accusations of loyal fellow chelators in the seizure of power, a coup d'état and even a "military coup" ... Of course, there was no coup in Moscow, not even with taking into account three "ritual sacrifices", specially organized by Yeltsinists. The counter-revolution simply overthrew all the first deputies of Gorbachev. The result of this provocation was the tragedy of hundreds of millions of workers who were ripped out of the remnants of power, the Constitution of the USSR was trampled undermined, the prestige of the Soviet Armed Forces and state security agencies was undermined and the activities of the CPSU were soon banned.
The direct consequence of the bourgeois political coup in August 1991 was two events.
First. The counter-revolution went beyond the Soviet Union. At the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchev argued that the socialist revolution should not be exported to neighboring countries. Khrushchev's heirs-Gorbachevites through the USSR carried out the export of the bourgeois counter-revolution to the Eastern European countries of socialism. The participation of the Gorbachevites determined the face of the "velvet revolutions" in Europe and the alignment of political forces in the former socialist states. The result: the weakening of the world socialist system, the deterioration of the situation in the international communist movement and the sharp change in the balance of forces in the international arena in favor of imperialism. This is one of the international aspects of the temporary victory of the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR.
The second. The natural result of the August coup was the Belovezhsky conspiracy of the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. This unconstitutional criminal conspiracy disorganized the Soviet Union into "sovereign" states, which are now becoming a raw material appendage of international capital and the dependent countries of the "third world". At the same time, the results of the All-Union referendum on March 17, 1991, at which 76% of the participants voted for a single Soviet Union were brazenly ignored. The Belovezhsky collusion deprived the Soviet people of its great homeland, and the world community - a country that was the vector and beacon of social progress. Violation of the existing balance and bipolarity of the world objectively leads to an increase in the threat of a third world war.
Such is the tragic national aspect of the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR.
(from the Collection of Selected Articles and N.A. Andreeva's speeches "For Bolshevism inside the Communist Movement", Leningrad, 1995, pp. 35-36)
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