Communist submarine on the right holds up North Korea as an example of 'patriotism'

Lately there are people who claim that "ideologies are dead" and that we should no longer talk about left and right.

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Such discourse has been on the rise since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and with the increase in the activity of pro-Russian propagandists on social media, many of them aligned with the far left - and particularly with openly Stalinist communist factions - and who are trying to infiltrate the right-wing sphere by appealing to concepts such as patriotism or Hispanicity, but manipulating them for their own benefit.

As readers of Contando Estrelas will remember, in June I already warned here against one of those communist submarines that have sneaked into the right, called "Vanguardia Española", a name that might make some think that it is simply a patriotic organization. And that is not the case. Last Sunday, this little communist group published a message on its Twitter channel putting the communist dictatorship of North Korea as an example of "patriotism":

Let's keep in mind that we're talking about the most brutal dictatorship in the world, an extremely oppressive tyranny that has concentration camps in which dissidents are locked up with their children and grandchildren, in inhumane conditions. Advocating for a criminal regime like that in Spain should be illegal. The last straw is that this is done by a small group whose leader is invited to patriotic and conservative forums as if he represented a normal, everyday political organization. And he is not. It is a small group that openly praises North Korea:

Furthermore, "Vanguardia Española" has also shown its admiration for the Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, the criminal who established the communist regime that still today keeps the Cuban people mired in oppression and misery:

And if those examples were not enough, "Vanguardia Española" has also expressed its "admiration" for the dictator Stalin, one of the greatest genocidaires in history, a mass criminal who not only murdered a multitude of dissidents of other ideologies, but also a multitude of dissident communists or those who were merely suspected of not being sufficiently loyal to him:

It is alarming that certain patriotic or right-wing forums allow this totalitarian scum to sneak in to spread their Stalinist ideas with the claim of "patriotism" and "Hispanicness", two beautiful concepts that we must defend against crude attempts at instrumentalization such as those that this small group is making.

Those of us who love Spain and the Hispanic world must reject attempts by totalitarians to exploit them to smuggle their communist messages in, just as we must also reject any message in the name of both that comes from neo-nazi groups, in an attempt to find cover for that ideology. The totalitarians only want Spain and the Hispanic world as springboards to impose their anti-democratic agenda, an agenda that right now keeps millions of inhabitants of Hispanic countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua mired in dictatorships. My solidarity is with those who suffer from these dictatorships, and not with the dictators or their propagandists, including certain pro-Russian sycophants.

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