Perhaps some readers of Counting Stars will find it strange that I have titled an article from 2026 with an event that took place five years ago..<\/p>\n
PSOE deputy accuses Vox of being \"Hitler\u2019s political heirs\"<\/big><\/p>\n I do this for a good reason. This Thursday, in the Madrid Assembly, PSOE deputy Daniel Rubio accused Vox of being \"Hitler\u2019s political heirs\"<\/a>\u2014a lie that can be attributed to the Socialists' desperation and nervousness regarding the electoral collapse looming over them<\/strong>, a consequence of their disastrous governance and corruption scandals. These issues recently led to a serious railway accident in Urda that claimed 69 lives<\/a>, coming just nine months after another major railway accident in Adamuz that resulted in 46 deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n For decades, the PSOE has been falsifying history<\/strong>, attempting to convince us that the Second Republic was an exemplary democracy and that the Civil War was a confrontation between democrats and anti-democrats. Equating their political rivals with Nazism is the last resort of a party devoid of moral scruples\u2014a party that has had no qualms about including communists in the Spanish government (the only government in the European Union to feature members of a totalitarian movement responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people<\/a>) and that had the indecency to strike a deal with EH Bildu, a party that has never condemned the 853 murders committed by ETA<\/strong>\u2014including the killings of 22 children and infants.<\/p>\n In 2021, Congress voted to endorse the European condemnation of Nazi and Communist crimes<\/big><\/p>\n Furthermore, when it comes to Nazism, the Spanish Socialists appear to have a very poor memory. In March 2021, at the initiative of the People's Party (PP), the Congress of Deputies voted for an initiative urging the Spanish government \"to endorse the European Parliament Resolution of September 19, 2019, condemning Nazi and Communist totalitarianism.\"<\/em><\/a> That resolution was adopted on September 19, 2019, and can be read in full here<\/a>. In it, the European Parliament recalled that \"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>, and condemned \"in the strongest terms the acts of aggression, crimes against humanity and mass human rights violations perpetrated by the Nazi, communist and other totalitarian regimes.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n In case anyone missed it, you can watch the video of the debate on that initiative here. It was a scandalous episode, during which PSOE deputy Rafael Simancas cited the communist Santiago Carrillo among \"freedom fighters\"<\/a> (he also included in that category the socialists Francisco Largo Caballero<\/strong>\u2014the primary ringleader of the coup d'\u00e9tat of October 1934<\/a>\u2014and Indalecio Prieto<\/strong>, who is notorious for threatening another deputy with a handgun<\/a> during a parliamentary session on July 4, 1934). Let us recall that in November 1936, Santiago Carrillo was the person primarily responsible for<\/strong> the Paracuellos massacre, in which 5,000 political prisoners\u2014including 50 children\u2014were murdered<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vox rejected both totalitarian ideologies in that debate<\/big><\/p>\n On the contrary, in that debate, Vox openly condemned both totalitarian ideologies:<\/strong> \"If there were deputies who praised Hitler or wore swastikas, we would be rightly alarmed; yet in this chamber\u2014as we have just seen once again this afternoon\u2014there sit many deputies who display the hammer and sickle, who unabashedly defend the crimes of communism<\/strong> throughout the 20th century\u2014as Mr. Santiago has just done\u2014and who praise the Soviet revolution, celebrating it on their social media, even though it was, in reality, a Bolshevik putsch,\"<\/em> stated Francisco Jos\u00e9 Contreras, then a Vox deputy. He added: \"Fascism and communism are first cousins. This is proven by the fact that, following the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between 1939 and 1941, the two systems collaborated amicably,<\/strong> jointly invaded Poland, and carved up Eastern Europe. That friendship was only brought to an end by Hitler\u2019s betrayal.\"<\/em><\/p>\n The 120 PSOE deputies voted against that European condemnation<\/big><\/p>\n
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