The Kremlin comes to the rescue of this far-left totalitarian movement
Russia continues to test the gullibility of those right-wingers who insist on seeing Putin as a conservative figure.
Putin comes to the rescue of communism: he wants to ban equating the USSR with nazism
Ten facts right-wing people who sympathize with Vladimir Putin seem to ignore
A few days ago, Czech President Petr Pavel, who is supported by the center-right Spolu platform, signed a law criminalizing the promotion of Nazism and communism, in a new attempt to confront totalitarian movements that try to undermine democracy from within. Let us remember that in 1968 Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring, a peaceful, democratic uprising against the communist dictatorship established by Moscow in Czechoslovakia. The Czechs have not forgotten this painful part of their past or the oppressors who imposed a dictatorship on them and denied them freedom for decades.
It’s the Kremlin that does seem to want Czechs to forget that terrible moment in their past. Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Ministry rejected the Czech law, calling it a “right-wing revenge move” following “Brussels’ directives to distort history.” As if vetoing a totalitarian movement that has killed more than 100 million people were “distorting.”
It should be remembered that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe already condemned the crimes of communism in 2006, through its Resolution 1481. At that session, United Russia, Vladimir Putin’s party voted against the conviction. The situation was repeated 13 years later, in 2019, when the European Parliament condemned the crimes of Nazism and Communism, a resolution criticized by Vladimir Putin, who called it “the height of cynicism”.
In response to these condemnations, in 2021 Putin criminalized in Russia any attempt to equate Nazism with communism. This should not come as a surprise to those who have followed the dictator’s career. Let us remember that Putin was an intelligence officer for the KGB, the sinister Soviet political police. As president of Russia, he has dedicated himself to undoing the democratic reforms implemented by Boris Yeltsin, driven by nostalgia for the USSR.
In June 2017, Vladimir Putin said that demonizing dictator and genocidal Stalin is “a way to attack the Soviet Union and Russia”. In January 2018, Putin equated communism with Christianity, comparing Lenin’s mummy to the relics of saints and stating that “communist ideology is very similar to Christianity. Freedom, brotherhood, fraternity, justice… all of these appear in the Holy Scriptures.” In the invasion of Ukraine, Russians are installing Soviet symbols (such as communist flags and statues of Lenin) in occupied cities.
In addition, Putin’s main allies are the communist and socialist dictatorships of China, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, anti-democratic, far-left governments that violate human rights. Therefore, it is normal that the Russian dictator is angry with the Czech Republic for vetoing the totalitarian ideology that Putin praises, because ultimately, it is one less way for the Kremlin to try to destroy Czech democracy from within. What is incomprehensible is that there are right-wing people who support this dictator, who is nostalgic for the USSR.
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