Originally posted on May
8th by Granmaa.
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of
the Great Patriotic War, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution expresses
his profound admiration for the heroic soviet people who provided an enormous
service to humanity.
The 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic
War will be commemorated the day after tomorrow, May 9. Given the time
difference, while I write these lines, the soldiers and officials of the Army
of the Russian Federation, full of pride, will be parading through Moscow’s Red
Square with their characteristic quick, military steps.
Lenin was a brilliant revolutionary
strategist who did not hesitate in assuming the ideas of Marx and implementing
them in an immense and only partly industrialized country, whose proletariat
party became the most radical and courageous on the planet in the
wake of the greatest slaughter that capitalism had caused in the world, where
for the first time tanks, automatic weapons, aviation and poison gases made an
appearance in wars, and even a legendary cannon capable of launching a heavy
projectile more than 100 kilometers made its presence felt in the bloody
conflict.
From that carnage emerged the League of
Nations, an institution that should have preserved peace but which did not even
manage to stop the rapid advance of colonialism in Africa, a
great part of Asia, Oceana, the Caribbean, Canada and a contemptuous
neo-colonialism in Latin America. Barely 20 years later, another atrocious
world war broke out in Europe, the preamble to which was the Spanish Civil War,
beginning in 1936.
After the crushing defeat of the Nazis, world
nations placed their hopes in the United Nations, which strives to generate
cooperation in order to put an end to aggressions and wars, such that countries
can preserve the peace, development and peaceful cooperation of the big and
small, rich or poor States of the world. Millions of scientists could, among
other tasks, increase the chances of the survival of the human species, with
billions of people already threatened by food and water
shortages within a short period of time. We are already 7.3 billion people on
the planet. In 1800 there were only 978 million; this figure rose to 6.07
billion in 2000; and according to conservative estimates by the year 2050 there
will be 10 billion.
Of course, scarcely is the arrival to Western
Europe of boats full of migrants mentioned, traveling in any object that
floats; a river of African migrants, from the continent colonized by the
Europeans over hundreds of years. 23 years ago, in a United Nations Conference
on the Environment and Development I stated: “An important biological species
is in danger of disappearing given the rapid and progressive
destruction of its natural life-sustaining conditions: man.” I did not know at
that time, how close we were to this.
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of
the Great Patriotic War, I wish to put on record our profound admiration for
the heroic Soviet people, who provided humankind an enormous service. Today we
are seeing the solid alliance between the people of the Russian Federation and
the State with the fastest growing economy in the world: The
People’s Republic of China; both countries, with their close cooperation,
modern science and powerful armies and brave soldiers constitute a powerful
shield of world peace and security, so that the life of our species may be
preserved.
Physical and mental health, and the spirit of
solidarity are norms which must prevail, or the future of humankind, as we know
it, will be lost forever. The 27 million Soviets who died in the Great
Patriotic War, also did so for humanity and the right to think and be
socialists, to be Marxist-Leninists, communists, and leave the dark ages
behind.
FIDEL CASTRO RUZ
May 7, 2015 10:14 p.m
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