By Nikos Mottas.
Sixty-five
years have been passed since the 5th March 1953 and the
bourgeois in all over the world still tremble before his name. For
the fascists and neo-Nazis, his image creates nightmares. The various
opportunists, trotskyites and counterrevolutionaries still try to
conjure him with tons of lies and slanders.
More
than six decades since the death of Joseph Stalin, the slanderous
campaign against his legacy continues unabated. The anti-stalinist
slanderers have used every single kind of defamation in order to
tarnish the personality of Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili: From
the ungrounded fairytales of the Nazi sympathizer Solzhenitsyn to the
fabricated, anti-communist stories of the so-called “Ukrainian
famine”, the (committed by the Nazis) Katyn massacre, the supposed
millions of executed prisoners in the notorious Gulags, etc.
The
most recent episode of the anti-stalinist, anti-communist slanderous
campaign is the ridiculously pathetic- in both historical and
artistic aspect- film “The Death of Stalin”, based on a french
novel. Behind the mantle of “comedy based on real events” (as its
advertisers shamelessly call it), there is one more soup of vulgar
anti-communism that attempts to pass to the audience the known
clichés
of bourgeois historiography about the “dictator”-”tyrrant”
Stalin and the soviet “totalitarianism”.
Sixty-five
years since the death of the bolshevik revolutionary, the major
question that deserves an answer is “why” Stalin continues being
a target of such a vicious attack, both from the bourgeois press and
academia, as well as from a series of opportunist streams
(trotskyites, reformists, etc).
Their
aim is to distort history, so that the people, especially the youth,
will draw no conclusions from the construction of socialism in the
Soviet Union. Their main purpose is to conceal the struggle of the
soviet people for a society free of the exploitation of man by man.
That is why they slanderously call the socialism of the 20th
century as “totalitarianism” and “tyranny”.
Joseph
Stalin guided the Party and the USSR under the most difficult
conditions of imperialist encirclement and internal
counterrevolutionary subversion. Under Stalin's leadership, the
remarkable achievements took place set the foundations for an
unprecedented growth that radically changed the image of the Soviet
Union, thus turning an underdeveloped, mostly rural, country into an
industrial and technological superpower.
Based
on the leninist political and ideological heritage, Stalin defended
socialism without stepping back. He repulsed attempts to restore
capitalism within the country and, on the same time, he prepared the
USSR to cope successfully with the challenges of the Second World
Imperialist War. The Soviet Union stood up in the subversive efforts
of both the “democratic” capitalist states (USA, Britain, France,
etc) and the fascist capitalist axis (Nazi Germany, Japan, fascist
Italy), highlighting the red flag with the sickle and hammer as the
emblem of the Great Antifascist Victory of the people.
The
bourgeoisie and the fascists of all kinds will never forgive the
raising of the soviet flag over the Reichstag. The heroic struggle of
the soviet people under Stalin's leadership will haunt them forever.
That's
why the will continue to slander Joseph Stalin, as part of their
efforts to tarnish the necessity of socialism in the conscience of
the people. They will fail. Because it is the objective reality that
creates the necessity and timeliness of socialism.
The
various slanderers of Stalin and Lenin know that the future, the 21st
century will bring new socialist revolutions. They tremble and fear
in front of this perspective thus attempting with anti-communist
furiousness to prevent history from moving forward.
* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism. The above text is a translated version of an article published in atexnos.gr.
