Wednesday, August 28, 2024

KKE Europarliament Group denounces the tour of Azov Brigade's Neo-Nazis across Europe

Azov's Neo-Nazis (Archive photo)
In a question addressed to the European Commission, the European Parliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) denounces the recruitment tour performed in Europe by the fascists of the Ukrainian Azov Brigade.

The tour takes place so that the fascists raise funds and recruit “members of volunteers”, both Ukrainians who have fled abroad as well as other nationalities. 
 
In less that 15 days, four officers of the Nazi battalion, which is part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, have planned events in 9 European cities  in Poland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Czech Republic and Lithuania, apparently with the approval or tolerance of the governments of the countries that are visiting.

All this happens while the EU shows tolerance, or even open support, towards Ukrainian Nazis. The EU has imposed sanctions against Russian armed neo-Nazi groups like “Rusich” (part of the Russian Armed Forces during the last 2 years), but hasn't done the same for the Ukrainian Nazis of Azov.

The European tour of the supporters of Stepan Bandera, a collaborator of the Nazis who in today's Ukraine is defiantly honored as a hero, provokes reactions from organizations of the workers-popular movement, something that has led to the cancellation of several events. The  systematic effort of the EU governments and members of NATO - among them the Greek one - to glorify and "whitewash" in the eyes of the people the collaborators of the SS, is the result of the unacceptable and unhistorical equation of communism with the monster of fascism , which is an official position of the EU, and has been unsuccessfully trying for years to impose it through "celebrations" of falsification of History such as the one on August 23 "about totalitarian regimes".

Thus, in addition to the support, financing and equipment from the EU of the Nazi gangs in Ukraine, we see the unacceptable honoring of Nazi collaborators in other EU member states, as for example in Estonia where, a few days ago, a few dozen dressed in Nazi Wehrmacht uniforms paraded under the government's tolerance.

Based on the above, the KKE MEPs, Kostas Papadakis and Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, addressed the following questions:

What is the stance of the European Commission

— on the visits of the Nazis of the Azov Brigade in EU member-states, at least with the tolerance, if not support, of the governments of the respective states?

— to the unacceptable displays of honor towards Nazi collaborators in a number of countries, like in Estonia?

IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM ©