EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM ACTIVISTS NEWS AGENCY

Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 10:40 : · **EURO-VOLCANO EXPLODES ?? :**

*STATEMENT ON COUNTERACTING THE DISTORTION OF HISTORY **OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY*
On October 14 in Prague, representatives of nineteen non-governmental
organizations from 13 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, signed in
the presence of Czech Prime Minister and Vice-President of the European
platform, the so-called "European memory and conscience."
The process that had developed after the Prague Declaration in 2008
declares the equal responsibility of the communist and the Nazi regime
for crimes committed in the twentieth century (especially the outbreak
of World War II), calls for recognition of August 23 as a European Day
of Remembrance for the victims of so-called totalitarian regimes.

The equation of the two systems -- Communist and Nazi -- is nothing more
than an attempt of some countries of Eastern Europe to whitewash the
criminal regimes who collaborated with Hitler, to shift responsibility
for the genocide only to Germans, to present those by whose hands were
committed the mass murder of thousand and millions innocent people as
"fighters against the communist regime", although we are conscious about
the fact that during the period of Stalin in the Soviet Union many
innocent people were killed by the regime.

It is not difficult to see among those who called for "condemnation of
Communism" -- right-wing political forces, social movements,
pseudo-scientific research centers and museums, self-proclaimed
spiritual and political successors of collaborators, Legionnaires'
Waffen SS, Forest Brothers, Stepan Bandera, and other supporters of the
Nazis.

It is no coincidence that the tendency to equate Soviet and the Nazi
systems against a background of rapid nazification and radicalization of
social consciousness in the former Communist bloc.

Glorification of Nazism not only distorts the past, but also endangers
the future. A new generation of Europeans grows up with the idea that
crimes of the Nazi collaborators are not important, as long as they
committed in the name of "the struggle for independence."
The signatories of the platform on "European memory and conscience"
declared their intent to write textbooks on the history of Europe for
high-school and university students. In these tutorials under the guise
of arguments on "equal responsibility of Stalin and Hitler for inciting
the war", European students will be inculcated with tolerance for those,
who siding with the Nazis, sullied their hands in the blood of innocent
victims of Nazism.

Based on the above, we declare the following:

 1.

    The thesis about equal responsibility of Communism and Nazism for
    the outbreak of World War II is historically unfounded, since it
    does not take into account the role of Western European democracies,
    especially Britain and France, in the collapse of the so-called
    "Versailles" system of the world order that emerged after the First
    World War and Hitler's aggression in pushing to the east. "Munich
    Agreement" and subsequent non-aggression pacts with Nazi Germany by
    Britain and France (1938) which became the first starting point, a
    necessary and sufficient condition for the outbreak of World War II,
    decision that freed Hitler's hands for his annexation policy towards
    Eastern European countries.

2. All the talk by signers of the so-called platform of "European memory
and conscience" of the alleged responsibility of the Soviet Union for
the war are intended not only to rewrite the history of the XX century
and glorify the collaborators, but also to reconsider decisions of the
Nuremberg trials and the postwar world order, that in itself leads to
unpredictable consequences.

3. Declared attempts to rewrite the history books (in fact, in Eastern
European countries this process has already started long ago), lead to
the education of a generation which has no "vaccine" against Nazism, and
therefore is able to repeat the mistakes of their grandfathers and great
grandfathers, who made the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.

We appeal to the leadership of the European Parliament, the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to dissociate themselves
from this initiative, since it involves a distortion of historical facts
and for many European countries serves as a signal to the justification
and glorification of their own collaborators, that objectively leads to
a revival of Nazism.

We offer a wide open scientific discussion on the history of the
twentieth century by encouraging the Council of Europe to establish an
open expert group in order to prepare a textbook on history of the
twentieth century, which could be recommended as a model for the
ministries of education of the countries -- members of the Council of
Europe. It will be based on a serious scientific study, as well as the
decisions of international judicial and political authorities on which
basis the postwar world order had been built. This book could form the
basis for the study for European students to understand this complex
historical period.
*For the sake of the future we will not allow to distort the past.*

/Kiev, 13 November 2011, opened for signatures/

EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM ACTIVISTS NEWS AGENCY

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Monkeys Colonised The Garden/Pachamama !! :

Stop Hunting Marxists ! : Dec. 14th 2011 :

Tord Bjork : Swedish/European Social Forum :

Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 10:40 :

A bad google translation somewhat adjusted of an article addressing

the verdict in the trial against ESF activist Algirdas Paleckis to be

announced today 14th of December 2011 in Vilnius and the general

campaign against system critical thinking and the workers movement

in Europe today. (Below the original Swedish version).

Please feel free to circulate and publish. :

Tord Björk

STOP HUNTING MARXISTS ! :

Europe is haunted by a hunt on Marxism and everything that it is said

to have caused. Murder, imprisonment, new textbooks and state

historical revisionism is seen as effective tools. Not least, the

Swedish government has taken the lead in this quest for what is said

to be an extremist ideology that inspires what the Swedish state’s

history authority calls communist learning processes that feeds

genocide.

This campaign against the Marxist violence was clearly demonstrated

during this summer’s massacre of labor movement activists in Norway.

On the Norwegian right-wing terrorist Breivik specially designed

uniform were a badge on the upper arm with the text Marxist Hunter.

But not only this right wing terrorist sees Marxists as an inherently

violent problem.

Lithuania is now in line. This time, Marxists are hunted by the court.

The politician Algirdas Paleckis from the Socialist People’s Front

party is accused of having denied the “large and very large crime”

committed by the Soviet Union against the residents of Lithuania, thus

having “offended and insulted” the victims of the communist regime’s

aggression. The punishment for the offense is up to two years

imprisonment. Paleckis is critical of both the Soviet Union’s actions

and forces within the emerging Lithuanian state that both are accused

by him of a lack of willingness to negotiate.

But he also claims that there was an element of provocation from the

Lithuanian side during the liberation struggle of the Soviet Union

substantiated by the statements by former Defense Minister of the

Republic of Lithuania, a chair of the country’s parliamentary security

committee and post-mortem reports. Killing shots at demonstrators at

the TV tower in Vilnius was according to these sources contrary from

the official version. At least some of them did not come from Soviet

soldiers on the ground but from above from other than military

weapons. For this statement the prosecutor brought Paleckis to

trial.

There is also an offensive at European level. In October,

representatives of organizations in 13 countries in Central and

Eastern Europe together with Czech Prime Minister signed an appeal for

“European memory and conscience.” The aim is to assert Communist and

Nazi regimes equal responsibility for World War II and the crimes

committed during the 1900s. Thus, it is given the opportunity to

reduce or completely hide the Nazi collaborators and practitioners of

genocide in Eastern Europe by depicting them as freedom fighters

against the communist regime. Something that has already come to the

strong expression particularly in the Baltic States. Here SS soldiers

from the country are hailed increasingly open while the genocide of

the Jews is turned into only a German responsibility. The Liberal

States many concessions to European fascism and the exclusion of the

Soviet Union from the negotiations with Hitler in Munich resulting in

sacrificing Czechoslovakia and accept the annexation of Austria

becomes erased from history.

The national Swedish historical authority Living History Forum, (Forum

för levande historia) contributes in its own way. The authority states

in its materials on crimes against humanity and genocide in the

communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China and Cambodia that they

are the result of communist learning processes, starting with Karl

Marx’s analysis of the Paris Commune. Lenin is also said to be the

first to import the concentration camps to Europe which is a lie

because the bourgeois Finland was before. If the political views of

Breivik makes him a fool, you can certainly wonder if the Swedish

state is a madhouse. It’s not just during the bourgeois government

Reinfeldt as the state historical authority disseminates historical

revisionism to claim Karl Marx’s ideology as a cause of constant