Historical Memory Law: The European Parliament equates communism with Nazism and calls for its crimes to be investigated

In the middle of the debate on historical memory in Spain, where a socialist government, with its neo-communist allies from Podemos and the historical communists from IU, tries to impose a sectarian version of the past, the European Parliament has approved a resolution [you can read it in full here] in which he equates communism with Nazism. Totalitarian systems alike related by their “mass murders, genocides and deportations.” Nazism and communism “were responsible for a loss of human life and freedom in the twentieth century on a scale hitherto never seen in human history “States the resolution approved on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War and which aims to highlight” the importance of European historical memory for the future of Europe. “How will this European declaration, for example, have been received? Mauricio Valiente, Manuela Carmena’s councilor who exhibited a portrait of Lenin in his official office? What will Enrique Santiago, general secretary of the PCE and member of the Podemos negotiating team, think of her at the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez, who continues to wear the hammer and sickle and praise Lenin? Will Pablo Iglesias now be ashamed of singing ‘La Internacional’ with the communist flag after a concert? Will Alberto Garzón get rid of the clothes he wears as a tribute to the Soviet Union? Pablo Iglesias posing with the USSR flag during a concert The European Parliament resolution emphasizes a fundamental question: the double yardstick that has existed for decades when it comes to prosecuting Nazism and Communism.Thus, he says that “while the crimes of the Nazi regime were evaluated and punished thanks to the Nuremberg trials, there remains an urgent need to sensitize about the crimes perpetrated by Stalinism.” Therefore, it encourages States to “assess them morally and legally, and carry out judicial investigations into them.” For this reason, the European Parliament calls on the States of the Union to “make a clear and principled assessment of crimes »Of both communism and Nazism and encourages keeping« alive the memories of Europe’s tragic past, in order to honor the memory of the victims, condemn the perpetrators and lay the foundations for a reconciliation based on truth and memory ». And among those truths is that communism was, like Nazism, a liberticidal and mass murder regime. Although in democracies like Spain there are politicians and communists who continue to defend a false interpretation of the past.