Canada's Unsound Rationale for an Anti-Communist Monument
There is a suggestion that once the names of Nazis and Nazi collaborators have been withdrawn from the anti-communist monument the Government of Canada has decided to unveil in Ottawa on December 12, together with the organization called Tribute to Liberty – whose entire existence has been to rehabilitate Nazis and Nazi collaborators – the monument is a legitimate tribute to Canada's so-called victims of communism and Canada as a "refuge" for those "persecuted by communism." The implication is that every single Canadian whose country of origin the government of Canada has declared a "communist dictatorship," is a victim of communism and came to Canada to find refuge. This is simply not the case.
Such
a rationale imposes a false identity on the millions of people who came
to Canada, calling them victims of communism irrespective of who they
are, why they came to Canada in the first place, their political and
ideological views, their aspirations, etc. Many have raised the
pertinent
question of why Canada has not instead raised a monument to the
anti-fascist fighters in World War II, many of whom have made Canada
their home since the anti-fascist war.
Another rationale given is that so long as the names of the Nazis and Nazi collaborators have been removed, the monument is justified because it praises Canada as a liberal democracy which is against communist dictatorship. This rationale is based on liberal hypocrisy and conciliation with the crimes against humanity which the Anglo-American imperialists have carried out since the beginning of the 20th century. The pretense by subsequent Canadian governments that Canada espouses the values of peace, freedom and democracy has died in Gaza where Canada is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Historical evidence shows that it has always provided safe haven for scoundrels and dictators saving themselves from the wrath of their own people. The refuge given to Nazi war criminals and collaborators is only the tip of the iceberg. From Korea, to Vietnam and Indo-China, to Iran and mafia elements from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the countries of Asia and Africa, Canada has welcomed them all. This includes Zionists who sent hundreds and thousands of Jews to the killing machines during World War II, in exchange for favours given by the Hitlerites to save a chosen few who were sent to Palestine. All of this is well recorded but hidden from the realm of public discourse in Canada.
Canada's unacceptable rationale was entrenched during the Cold War launched by the U.S. and Anglo-American imperialists after World War II.
After the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, and even during its drafting and the adoption process, the Anglo-American imperialist forces launched the Cold War based on the lie that the "West" is the "defender" of human rights, and that socialism and communism are not. It was a patent falsity, but it has obviously served as the backdrop for many of the crimes committed against the peoples fighting for national and social liberation since World War II.
Not only did the Anglo-American imperialists refuse to denazify the zones under their control but they actually protected the Nazis, gave them safe haven and positions of influence and authority while they persecuted the communists, slaughtering them en masse as they did in Korea in 1950-53 and Indonesia under their puppet Sukarno in 1965-1966, or keeping them in concentration camps for 40 years as they did in Greece and south Korea while carrying out witch hunts, coups d'état and wars of aggression in the name of the containment of communism. They established NATO as an aggressive U.S. imperialist-led war alliance and its North Atlantic Council to make sure that only political systems to their liking were permitted in Europe, based on definitions of rights and types of government which they themselves approved and imposed.
Anti-communism and the defeat of the Soviet Union and countries of the former people's democracies, not defence of democracy and human rights, was their motivation and the most heinous crimes were justified on this basis.
At the time the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was adopted, this expressed itself in the clash between the countries that comprised the socialist camp and those that comprised the capitalist camp. The socialist countries fought against permitting rights to be treated as an abstraction while there was no obligation to put in place the economic and social conditions required for their realization. The capitalist camp refused to have any legal requirements holding governments accountable to guarantee the rights. It rejected providing for collective rights, including the rights of nations to self-determination.
According to the U.S. imperialist mantra, communism was based on the violation of human rights. Overthrowing communism was thus to prove the superiority of the U.S. democracy and its defence of human rights. To this day the U.S. imperialists and their partners in crime continue to erect monuments to condemn the alleged crimes of the communists while the crimes they have carried out in the name of freedom, democracy and human rights are to remain forgotten.
Canada figures prominently in this history which it is trying to escape today by unveiling anti-communist monuments such as the one in Ottawa, protecting the fact that it shielded Nazis and Nazi collaborators after World War II, and considers the genocide of the Palestinian people a democratic act in defence of Israel.
But
history has its own cunning. Reality exists. Human beings not only
exist but they strive to humanize the social and natural environment as
a matter of their being human. This is what settles scores with the old
conscience of society.
The anti-communist monument, which remains a tribute to the U.S. imperialists and their Nazi collaborators, should be abolished. Canada refuses to discuss its rationale for keeping it because it cannot justify what cannot be justified. Using its positions of privilege and power to pursue this shameful project will only add to the huge stain which already besmirches Canada's reputation worldwide.
More than 1.1 million Canadians joined the Canadian Armed Forces in World War II. Millions of Canadians come from countries which were occupied by the Nazis, Mussolini's fascists or the Japanese militarists and fought against them. Many were part of the resistance forces including the communists. Either this monument should honour their cause and sacrifice or it should be abolished.
(Graphics: JRD-YDR)
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 48 - December 12, 2024
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