{"id":49152,"date":"2022-10-31T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49152"},"modified":"2023-10-31T00:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:18:48","slug":"sanchez-breaches-an-eu-resolution-that-calls-for-remembering-the-victims-of-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/31\/sanchez-breaches-an-eu-resolution-that-calls-for-remembering-the-victims-of-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez breaches an EU resolution that calls for remembering the victims of communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/21\/spain-a-totalitarian-law-that-hides-the-war-crimes-of-the-left-comes-into-force\/\">The \"democratic memory\"<\/a>, as the Spanish left calls its eagerness to impose its vision of history, forgets millions of victims of totalitarianism.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/21\/spain-a-totalitarian-law-that-hides-the-war-crimes-of-the-left-comes-into-force\/\">Spain: a totalitarian law that hides the war crimes of the left comes into force<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/26\/spanish-parliament-refuses-to-condemn-the-crimes-of-nazism-and-communism\/\">Spanish Parliament refuses to condemn the crimes of Nazism and Communism<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez omits the victims of communism in his \"democratic memory\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Today the Spanish government, formed by a coalition made up of socialists and communists, has celebrated the first <em>\"day of remembrance and tribute to all the victims of the military coup, the war and the dictatorship\"<\/em>, created by < a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/21\/spain-a-totalitarian-law-that-hides-the-war-crimes-of-the-left-comes-into-force\/\">the recently approved law of \"democratic memory\"<\/a>. In his speech on the occasion of this conference, the President of the Government <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1587051923059851264\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez mentioned the countries who \"suffered fascism\"<\/a>, <strong>but has not dedicated a single word to those who suffered from communism<\/strong>, a totalitarian movement as criminal and anti-democratic as Nazism, but which has killed many more people than the Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p>These forgetfulnesses are not new. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boe.es\/boe\/dias\/2022\/10\/20\/pdfs\/BOE-A-2022-17099.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The text of the aforementioned law refers to fascism and Nazism<\/a>, appealing to the \"European democratic memory\", <strong>but says nothing about communist dictatorships<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/12\/18\/the-more-than-100-million-deaths-that-communism-caused-divided-by-countries\/\">responsible for the deaths of millions of people<\/a>. It is still an act of cynicism that the Spanish left has appealed to that European memory while <strong>forgetting the terror and suffering that half of Europe experienced under the communist yoke<\/strong>. And it does so simply because the ideology of those dictatorships is the same as that defended by S\u00e1nchez's government partners: the communists of Podemos and Izquierda Unida.<\/p>\n<p><big>The European resolution that condemned the crimes of Nazism and Communism<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The left's amnesia about communist crimes is more than just a scandalous sectarian attitude: moreover, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/TA-9-2019-0021_EN.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">does not comply with resolution P9_TA(2019)0021 of the European Parliament<\/a>, approved on September 19, 2019 and whose title recalls \"the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe\". But the memory of that resolution was not sectarian: the text recalled that <em>\"<strong>the Nazi and communist regimes carried out mass murders, genocide and deportations<\/strong> and caused a loss of life and freedom in the 20th century on a scale unseen in human history.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition, <strong>the resolution condemned<\/strong> <em>\" in the strongest terms the acts of aggression, <strong>crimes against humanity and mass human rights violations perpetrated by the Nazi, communist<\/strong> and other totalitarian regimes\"<\/em>, as well as <em>\"all manifestations and propagation of totalitarian ideologies, such as Nazism and Stalinism, in the EU\"<\/em>, and <strong>criticized the regime of Vladimir Putin for continuing to <em>\"continue to whitewash communist crimes and glorify the Soviet totalitarian regime.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The requests of that European resolution that S\u00e1nchez has not fulfille<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <strong>the European resolution calls for some specific things:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, the resolution calls on <em>\"all Member States of the EU to make a clear and principled assessment of <strong>the crimes and acts of aggression perpetrated by the totalitarian communist regimes and the Nazi regime<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/li>\n<li>El texto <strong>pide <em>\"all Member States to commemorate 23 August as the European Day of Remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes<\/strong> at both EU and national level.\"<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Likewise, the text <strong>calls for <em>\"a common culture of remembrance that rejects the crimes of fascist, Stalinist, and other totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>calls <em>\"for 25 May (the anniversary of the execution of the Auschwitz hero Rotamaster Witold Pilecki) to be established as International Day of Heroes of the Fight against Totalitarianism<\/strong>, which will be an expression of respect and a tribute to all those who, by fighting tyranny, demonstrated their heroism and true love for humankind, and will also provide future generations with a clear example of the correct attitude to take in the face of the threat of totalitarian enslavement.\"<\/em> Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/27\/pilecki-the-man-who-unveiled-the-holocaust-and-ended-up-executed-by-the-communists\/\">Pilecki was a member of the Polish resistance who fought Nazism and ended up being assassinated by the communists<\/a>, for opposing the dictatorship established by Stalin in Poland at the end of the Second World World War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well then:<strong> Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government has not complied with any of these requests.<\/strong> At the institutional level, his government does not celebrate any of the two dates indicated (neither May 25 nor August 23), <strong>perhaps because that would imply paying tribute to the victims of communism<\/strong>. Likewise, and as I have already pointed out, the S\u00e1nchez government has also omitted any reference to the crimes of communism in its \"democratic memory\" law.<\/p>\n<p><big>The Spanish socialists and their desire to cover up the crimes of communism<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This attitude of \"historical amnesia\" on the left about communist crimes is not new. <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.coe.int\/nw\/xml\/XRef\/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=17403&lang=en rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When the Council of Europe condemned the crimes of communism in 2006<\/a>, recalling <em>\"the massive human rights violations committed by the totalitarian communist regimes\"<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/06\/17\/esto-es-lo-que-hizo-el-psoe-cuando-europa-quiso-condenar-los-crimenes-del-comunismo\/\">the Spanish socialists of the PSOE voted together with the communists against that resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, in 2019, when the European Parliament approved the resolution that we have reviewed above, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/10\/04\/los-socialistas-intentaron-impedir-la-condena-de-los-crimenes-comunistas-por-parte-de-la-ue\/\">the socialists tried to erase all mention of communism in the text<\/a>. The reason was easy to guess: in the parliamentary group of European Socialists there are former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/05\/29\/from-tyrants-to-social-democrats-costumes-of-the-communism-in-the-old-marxist-europe\/\">unique parties of communist dictatorships that became \"social democrats\" in 24 hours<\/a>. To condemn the crimes of communism would be to condemn themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in March 2021, the parliamentary opposition brought to Congress the aforementioned EU resolution condemning Nazi and communist crimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/26\/spanish-parliament-refuses-to-condemn-the-crimes-of-nazism-and-communism\/\">the left voted against the resolution<\/a>. <strong>The socialists -among them S\u00e1nchez- and their far-left partners voted together against this condemnation of communist crimes<\/strong>, and during the parliamentary debate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/03\/24\/psoe-y-ultraizquierda-ensalzan-a-criminales-y-antidemocratas-en-un-pleno-del-congreso\/\">the PSOE spokesman cited among the \"defenders of the freedom\" to the communist Santiago Carrillo<\/a>, head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/11\/07\/the-names-of-the-50-children-killed-by-communists-in-the-paracuellos-massacre\/\">the Paracuellos massacre, in which 5,000 political prisoners, including 50 children, were killed<\/a> during the Spanish Civil War. This gives a truly alarming image of the ethical and moral perversion that the Spanish left disguises as \"democratic memory\".<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00abdemocratic memory\u00bb, as the Spanish left calls its eagerness to impose its vision of history, forgets millions of victims of totalitarianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[10444,1062,693,2721,7841,11462],"class_list":["post-49152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-communism","tag-izquierda-unida","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-podemos","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}