Slanders and Lies to Glorify Nazism -
Louis Lang - 
At
a mass action on Parliament Hill on September 19, 2015, Canadians
reject the Harper government's attempt to impose its anti-communist
monument and its anti-social offensive
as Canadian values.
On
August 23, the Trudeau government intends to mark the anniversary
of Black Ribbon Day, a memorial day concocted by the ruling circles of
Europe in 2009 to promote anti-communism through slanders and lies, and
to glorify Nazism.
The real historical significance
of August 23
is deliberately covered up by the anti-communist campaign. August 23 is
the date that the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact (the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) was signed in 1939. The Soviet Union had no
alternative but to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany because the
British, French and Americans refused to enter into a collective
security agreement with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. Instead,
they sought to isolate the Soviet Union, egging on Hitler to achieve
the aims he clearly set forth in his book Mein Kampf which
advocates
the superiority of the so-called Aryan race and capture of land in
Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia to be used as "living
space" for the
German people.  Amongst other
crimes the Anglo-French
forces
committed during the pre-war years was to sign the Munich Agreement
with Hitler on September 30, 1938 which ceded the Sudetenland from
Czechoslovakia to Germany and, more broadly, approved the strategy of
appeasing Hitler. The non-aggression agreement the Soviet Union signed
with Germany gave the Soviets an extra 22 months to build up their
defences against the expected Nazi invasion.
Standard
Anglo-American imperialist anti-communist propaganda equates the Nazis,
who are well-known as the biggest war criminals of that time, with the
Soviet Union, which played the major role in defeating the Hitlerites
and freeing the world of the scourge of Nazism. It deliberately
promotes the view that the Hitlerite Nazis and their collaborators, who
slaughtered the peoples of Europe and the Soviet Union amongst others,
were freedom fighters because they fought against communism, and the
anti-fascist forces who fought them to the death, especially the
communists, should be erased from the historical record. Trudeau
also intends to complete Jason Kenney and the Stephen Harper
government's pet project which seeks to glorify Nazis and
Nazi
collaborators as freedom fighters against communism. It is a publicly
funded monument officially called "Memorial to Victims of
Communism
-- Canada, a Land of Refuge." The project is based on and
linked to the
U.S. Victims of Communism Memorial, dedicated in 2007, whose honourary
chairman is war criminal George W. Bush and whose benefactors include
monopolies such as defence contractor Lockheed Martin and the Amway
Corporation owned by the dominionist DeVos family. The
National
Capital Commission, ignoring the opposition of many sectors of society
in Ottawa and all across the country, has approved an architectural
design and is proceeding to build the monument in downtown Ottawa.
 The
private organization on whose behalf the Trudeau government is acting
is Tribute to Liberty, an anti-communist organization led by various
individuals with very shady pasts linked to the holocaust against the
Jews and others considered "inferior races." Since
2009 Tribute to
Liberty has been trying to raise money from Canadians but has failed
miserably. The funding for the anti-communist monument is coming from
the Canadian government as well as several East European governments
who are virulent anti-communists and support the criminal activities of
pro-Nazi movements within their countries.[1]
At this
time when
people all over the world are tearing down statues and symbols
commemorating slavery, colonial genocide and imperialist oppression,
Canadians will not accept the actions of the Trudeau government acting
on behalf of private interests to build monuments glorifying Nazis and
their collaborators which reverse the verdicts of history.
The
people of Canada support genuine freedom and democracy. What is needed
is a monument commemorating the countless millions of victims of
colonial conquest, slavery and genocide and imperialist wars of
aggression, coups d'état, sanctions and "regime changes." 
Why is there
no monument to honour the victims of the centuries-long state genocide
against the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island? Photo shows thousands
participating in Vancouver on February 14, 2014 in the annual memorial
march for missing and murdered Indigenous
women
and girls. Note 1. Foreign financial contributions
to Tribute to Liberty for the anti-communist monument have been
received from the governments of Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia,
Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Taiwan. Latvia, Estonia and
Ukraine in particular are known for public celebrations of Nazi
collaborators or those who were part of Nazi formations in World War
II. Many governments in Eastern European countries have sought to
distort the role of the Soviet Red Army in their liberation from the
Nazis. Taiwan, as the seat of power for the
reactionary Kuomintang (KMT), deposed by the communists in the
Chinese civil war, established the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League
in 1954 with the governments of the Philippines and south Korea, known
today as the World League for Freedom and Democracy with its offices in
Taiwan.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 31 - August 22, 2020
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Slanders and Lies to Glorify Nazism -
Louis Lang
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