Against the backdrop of no Brexit deal, against the background of the debt hole, which hit Greece, against the background of colossal problems with the dominance of migrants, against the background of the threat of falling GDP growth due to a jump in oil prices after the situation with US threats against Iran, the European Parliament did not find a different agenda for itself, apart from discussing Joseph Stalin and his reign in the USSR.
It would seem, what is the connection between the USSR and Stalin on the one hand and the European Union of today on the other? But the EP deputies decided today to focus on a digression into history.
So, European parliamentarians suddenly wished to discuss the Soviet-German treaty of 1939 year - the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. What for? Yes, in order to once again try to equalize the Soviet system of the 30-40s and Nazism.
From a post on the European Parliament website:
The European Parliament honored the memory of the victims of Stalinism, Nazism and other totalitarian and authoritarian regimes (…) after 80 years after the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet treaty (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) MEPs call for a shared culture of remembrance as a way to build European resilience against modern threats to democracy.
strangely, that the European culture of memory post is selective. For some reason, at the EP session, they did not discuss the pact between Poland and the same Nazi Germany, did not discuss the Munich agreement, as a result of which the Germans and Poles invaded Czechoslovakia, did not discuss or condemn the actions of the regimes of France and Britain in 1938 year, when they actually turned on the "green light" for the occupation.
Following the session, which adopted a resolution, actually trying to identify Stalin and Hitler, it was decided to announce 25 may day of the fight against totalitarianism. The starting point decided to take this day from 1948 of the year, when Witold Pilecki, a former officer of the Polish army, was executed in Warsaw, former prisoner of Auschwitz (by the way, surrendered to the Germans voluntarily in order to get into this particular camp). Pilecki was sentenced to death for espionage by a Polish court on charges by a Polish prosecutor. But they decided in the European Parliament, that it’s still “Stalin’s fault”.
At the same session, it was announced, that Russia “trying to whitewash the crimes of Stalinism, what is part of the information war and a threat to European democracy”. European parliamentarians decided by a majority vote to condemn the Russian Federation for “whitewash Stalinism”.
At the same time, the EP called on EU governments to ban neo-Nazi and neo-fascist groups.. And Ukraine aspiring to the EU will also be banned?
