On September 19, 2019, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the crimes of communism and Nazism.<\/p>\n
That resolution, RC-B9-0097\/2019 (can be read here<\/a>), stated the following: \"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> This resolution was approved by 535 votes in favor, 66 against and 52 abstentions.<\/strong><\/p>\n The result of the vote can be seen here<\/a> (PDF, page 24). As anyone can see, among the MEPs who voted against was Ernest Urtasun<\/strong>, who represented the far-left coalition Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds.. Today Urtasun is the Minister of Culture of the Pedro S\u00e1nchez government.<\/strong> Three years ago, on March 25, 2021, in the Congress of Deputies, that government voted against a conviction of the crimes of communism<\/a> that requested ratification in Spain of the aforementioned resolution approved by the European Parliament in 2019.<\/p>\n This Thursday, Urtasun has announced that the government will request the extinction of the Francisco Franco Foundation<\/a> appealing to the law of \"democratic memory\"<\/strong>, a memory that Urtasun did not apply to the victims of communism five years ago, when he voted against the European resolution that condemned the crimes against them.<\/p>\n The Spanish left is not bothered that Franco was a dictator, but that he was not a communist dictator<\/strong>. In fact, in 2014 and also in the European Parliament, Urtasun voted against a resolution that condemned the repression in Venezuela<\/a> by the dictatorship of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, a resolution that Urtasun described as \"a cruelty and a general cause against Venezuela.\"<\/em> It is the same Urtasun who now invokes \"democratic memory\"<\/strong>, exhibiting a cynicism that seems to have no limits.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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