40TH ANNIVERSARY —

CP recalls an

The Second World War is commemo-
tated with large celebrations in the world’s
Socialist countries, but its 40th anniversary
is ignored here, Communist Party speak-
ers charged June 13.

That’s because capitalist governments
are afraid or reluctant to acknowledge the
decisive role the Soviet Union played in
the defeat of fascism, British Columbia CP
leader Maurice Rush and historian Ben
Swankey told 150 people marking the 40th
anniversary of the victory over fascism.

In outlining the history of the Canadian
anti-fascist movement in the 30s and the
battles the Red Army waged against
Hitler’s invading forces, the party spo-
kesmen said the initial aim of World War
Il — during its “imperialist” stage — was
the eradication of socialism at home and
abroad.

“(The Nazis) hoped to achieve what
had not been achieved by (previous) inva-
sions — the destruction of the first social-
ist state,” said Rush.

Swankey said the western powers fol-
lowed a policy throughout the 30s of
allowing fascism to consolidate its forces
with a threefold purpose in mind: “The
destruction of the trade union movement
at home, the destruction of democracy
and the destruction of the Soviet Union.”

In the depth of the depression the
Communist Party was banned, fascists
were financed and allowed to organize and
in Vancouver there was “an unparalleled
and vicious anti-Communist campaign,”
said Swankey.

Despite such efforts to supress demo-
cratic movements, the Communist Party
was successful in leading several anti-
fascist and workers’ campaigns under the
auspices of organizations such as the
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B.C. Communist Party leader Maurice Rush, and historian Ben Swankey (back-
ground) commemorated Canadian and international anti-fascist struggles at
meeting marking the 40th anniversary of World War Il, June 13.

Soviet Union, several ethnic organizations
and other groups, he related.

The developments in Canada were
complemented internationally by the
Third Communist International’s: adop-
tion in 1935 of acampaign for the defeat of
fascism. The campaign’s successes included
the election of a popular government in
France and the international support for
democracy in Spain, Swankey noted.

More than 250 Communists were
arrested and 100 interned in 1940 because
Communists opposed a war designed to
destroy the Soviet Union — which had
signed the non-aggression pact with Ger-
many a year earlier to thwart those
designs — and it wasn’t until a year later,
after Canada and other Western powers
joined with the USSR to fight fascism, that
the internees were released, said Swankey.

Swankey said the actions of the Com-
munists and other progressives during the
30s “proved their honesty.

“They fought on the united front and
the battle front. We can be proud of the
contribution we made in the 30s.”

Rush said that only the Soviet Union
stood between Hitler and his aims of
world domination after the Nazi armies
had subjegated most of Europe.

“Tf the Soviet people hadn’t put up their
struggle, which cost them more than 20
million dead, the whole world would have
been under the fascist heel,” Rush
declared.

In contrast to the attention the socialist
world pays the anniversary, western pow-
ers have ignored it, even though Canada
lost 40,000 lives and saw 100,000 injured,
Rush noted.

Rush, who recently attended massive
celebrations in the USSR commemorating
the 40th anniversary of the victory over
fascism, recalled that when Germany
invaded the Soviet Union, the “most
optimistic prediction (in the western press)
was that the country would last six
weeks.”

During the Soviet commemorations,
which included an address by Communist
Party general secretary Mikhail Gorba-
chev, several key battles and their decisive
role in contributing to the defeat of
Hitler’s effort were recalled — but the
theme was also one of peace, Rush said.

“The Soviet minister of defence said
that, ‘Our country stands for peace, but if
any country wants to take that away, they
should know they face inevitable retribu-
tion,’ ” Rush related.

Both the Nazis of 40 years ago and the
capitalist powers today underestimated
the Soviet Union, and the achievements of
its socialist system, Rush said.

“One of the main conclusions we can
draw is that World War II was essentially
a contest between capitalism and social-
ism. Socialism emerged from the war
showing its great superiority as a system,”
he declared.

Rush said Gorbachev noted in his
address that “if socialism hadn’t achieved
(in the USSR) what it had achieved in the
first 25 years, fascism would have tri-
umphed on a world scale.

“Hitler was unable to defeat socialism,
and modern anti-Sovieteers will not be
able to do it either,” Rush asserted.

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