Galician Separatists Talk About "Authoritarian Regimes" and Include Poland But Not the USSR

@ElentirENG ES 8·18·2018 · 18:43 0

The separatists of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) once again demonstrate that when talking about dictatorships, they do not even conceive of the oppressive communist regimes as such.

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In a story published yesterday on its website, the BNG - which calls "nation" to the region of Galicia and defends the rupture of the unity of Spain - reported on an act of homage to Alexandre Bóveda, Galician nationalist politician shot by the national side of the Spanish Civil War in August 1936. In the third paragraph of the story, the BNG affirms the following: "We do not want, nor can we forget what the fascism and authoritarian regimes that ran throughout Europe in the 1920s and 1930s of the last century: from Portugal to Italy, from Germany to Greece, through Poland, Hungary, Austria or the Spanish State. We are not going to forget the atrocities and crimes committed by these regimes against the dissenting or simply different."

The BNG forgets the USSR after citing the era in which Stalin ruled

To begin with, the BNG - as do the other Spanish leftist parties - forgets the war crimes committed by the Red side in the Spanish Civil War, which included tens of thousands of tortured and murdered, including many Catholics who were massacred because of your faith. Curiously, the BNG includes in its list to Poland, probably by the regime of the Sanacja de Józef Piłsudski (1926-1935), which was a very soft dictatorship, very similar to the military directory of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) in Spain. But the most striking thing is that the BNG forgets to cite the USSR, which in the years indicated by that party was ruled by the dictator Stalin, one of the greatest mass murderers in history.

The crimes of one of the greatest mass murderers in history

We must remember that Stalin is not only responsible for the murder of millions of Soviet citizens (with his famous purges) and the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomor and hundreds of thousands of Kazakhs in the Goloshchekin Genocide (1932-1933). In addition, Stalin and Hitler initiated the Second World War with their invasion of Poland (their troops even paraded together in the occupied territory), agreed by a secret protocol included in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact on August 23, 1939. Recall that 150,000 Poles killed by the Soviet occupation of the eastern side of Poland, an occupation zone in which, moreover, 276,000 Poles were deported to Siberia and other places in the USSR. The atrocities of the Stalin regime did not end there: at the end of the Second World War, some 100,000 Polish women and girls were raped by the Soviets (many of them were also killed) and thousands of members of the Polish resistance against the Nazism were persecuted and killed by the Stalinists, with episodes as scandalous as the one in July 1944, in which thousands of soldiers of the Polish resistance who had helped to liberate Vilna were arrested, deported and some of them shot by the Soviets.

In 2017 BNG communists extolled the "social achievements" of the USSR

It is not strange that the BNG forget the atrocities of Stalin. The Galician Nationalist Bloc was born in 1982 from the union of several separatist parties. The main partner of the BNG is the Unión do Povo Galego (UPG), a Marxist-Leninist party that shows the communist emblem of the sickle and hammer on its logo. Last November, the youth of the UPG published a statement praising the USSR, a totalitarian regime to which they attribute "great and multiple social, political, economic, cultural and scientific achievements." The statement forgot the millions killed by that dictatorship, and did not mention the lack of freedom, the total absence of political pluralism and human rights violations suffered by the citizens of that country during the seven decades that regime lasted. Interestingly, in its statement yesterday the BNG states that "forgetting is becoming accomplices of terror." That is exactly what that separatist party is in relation to the USSR and other communist dictatorships: an accomplice.