{"id":20810,"date":"2017-08-15T02:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=20810"},"modified":"2017-08-15T02:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:11:51","slug":"submission-of-the-revolutionary-communist-party-of-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2017\/08\/submission-of-the-revolutionary-communist-party-of-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil (PCR)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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English translation by\u00a0<\/em>F\u00e9nix Rojo\u00a0staff<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Comrades<\/span>, parties and organizations <\/span>here <\/span>present at the 21st SEMINAR<\/span> <\/span>INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA<\/span>, w<\/span>e salute the comrades of the Marxist Leninist Communist<\/span> <\/span>Party of Ecuador for <\/span>organizing<\/span> the International Seminar, for <\/span>its<\/span> efforts to keep <\/span>the Seminar<\/span> alive once again<\/span>,<\/span> and also for receiv<\/span>ing<\/span> us in <\/span>su<\/span> country in an ever so fraternal way.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We introduce our colleagues to our paper on the contribution of<\/span> made by the<\/span> October socialist revolution for humanity, in particular <\/span>for <\/span>the worldwide defeat of Nazi<\/span>\/<\/span>fascism<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Revolutionary Communist Party <\/span>\u2013<\/span> Brazil<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Comrades,<\/span><\/p>\n

Under<\/span> capitalism, wars are the result of competition between the dominant classes of different\u00a0<\/span>n<\/span>ations <\/span>for<\/span> the dominion of the planet. In World War I, two <\/span>opposite imperialist <\/span>blocks were formed: <\/span>El <\/span>Triple Alliance (German<\/span>y<\/span>, Austr<\/span>ia-Hungary, <\/span>y <\/span>the <\/span>Ottoman Turks)<\/span>;<\/span> y <\/span>El <\/span>Triple<\/span> <\/span>Entente (<\/span>Britain, France, and the Russian Empire<\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Something new, however, arose during World War I: <\/span>the October Socialist Revolution on 1917<\/span> in Russia; <\/span>a new conflict<\/span> was taking place in the world, now divide<\/span>d into two antagonistic systems, c<\/span>apitalism and socialism. The capi<\/span>talist blocs had a common goal, the <\/span>destruction\u00a0<\/span>o<\/span>f the first worker-peasant state <\/span>in <\/span>history, <\/span>with a <\/span>view <\/span>towards<\/span> the restoration of capitalism on a <\/span>global <\/span>scale<\/span>. <\/span>It was for thi<\/span>s purpose that the winning bloc<\/span> invested <\/span>one billion Marks i<\/span>n the <\/span>G<\/span>erman economy in six years (1924-1929).<\/span><\/p>\n

When Nazism seized <\/span>Alemania<\/span> and made explicit its <\/span>aspiration<\/span> to world domination, the <\/span>capitalist <\/span>powers<\/span> <\/span>did<\/span> not try to fight it. On the contrary, they close<\/span>d<\/span> their eyes to <\/span>its<\/span> aggressions and even<\/span> e<\/span>ncourage the Nazi monster to direct its attack against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics<\/span> <\/span>(USSR)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plan of the capitalist countries to destroy the homeland of the Soviets<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1939, the USSR proposed to England and France a pact for joint <\/span>military action if the <\/span>Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan), <\/span>the Nazi\/fascist bloc<\/span>, <\/span>were <\/span>to initiate war in Europe. There was no <\/span>formal <\/span>rejection, but no step was taken by the capitalist countries to <\/span>accept the proposed<\/span> pact.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the contrary, France and England supported <\/span>appeasement<\/span> with Germany and Japan. Left\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>lone, in August 1939, the USSR signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. <\/span>Its<\/span> leaders knew<\/span> t<\/span>hat, sooner or later, Hitler would break the agreement, but they m<\/span>anaged to gain valuable time in order to t<\/span>ransfer part of their industries to the east of the great Soviet territory, or to strengthen their <\/span>defensive military <\/span>capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

From 1938 to 1941, Hitler occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway,<\/span> <\/span>Greece, Yugoslavia and, finally, France. In central and eastern Europe, Germany acquired<\/span> large quantities<\/span> de <\/span>war <\/span>material, means of transpor<\/span>ta<\/span>t<\/span>ion<\/span>, raw material<\/span>s, strategic materials, and labor<\/span>, becoming strong enough to attack the Soviet Union.<\/span> <\/span>In 1941, Hitler, the\u00a0<\/span>fascist beast, representing the interests of capitalist monopolies, attempted<\/span> to p<\/span>ut an <\/span>end to socialism by invading the Soviet Union, burning down <\/span>its <\/span>factories and <\/span>farms<\/span>, <\/span>dropping<\/span> thousands and promoting the <\/span>greatest<\/span> carnage the world has <\/span>ever <\/span>seen. But the heroic<\/span> <\/span>Red Army, led by the Communist Party and Stalin, supported by a free people, rose<\/span> up a<\/span>gainst the Nazi beast and crushed it, freeing humanity from fascism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Hitler<\/span>ite<\/span> invasion was ruthless. They people <\/span>en<\/span> masse<\/span> <\/span>(women, children, <\/span>the elderly<\/span>), organized death camps, deported <\/span>people <\/span>for forced labor in Germany. Where <\/span>t<\/span>hey passed, they left <\/span>nothing standing<\/span>. It was <\/span>a<\/span> policy of extermination!<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, the government, the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet people <\/span>cried out<\/span>:<\/span> <\/span>“Death to the fascist invaders<\/span>!<\/span> T<\/span>o the<\/span> front! Everything for victory!<\/span>\u201c<\/span> <\/span>The ranks of the Red Army<\/span> swelled to millions of soldiers. <\/span>Several regiments of <\/span>partisans<\/span> were also created, counting<\/span> on<\/span> millions of combatants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dedication and bravery of the Soviet people <\/span>moved<\/span> the world and <\/span>was<\/span> decisive in breaking the<\/span> c<\/span>apitalist resistance<\/span> of naysayers in the <\/span>USA, England, <\/span>and France<\/span>. The <\/span>anti-fascist <\/span>allied bloc, the<\/span> <\/span>only united front of the people<\/span>s for peace and against fascism was finally formed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hitler’s idea that the occupation of the USSR would be <\/span>effortless<\/span>, a “<\/span>lightning war<\/span>,<\/span>\u201c<\/span> <\/span>toppled to earth<\/span>. The Nazis did not imagine the resistance they would find in the main cities:\u00a0<\/span>Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kiev and Moscow, <\/span>to name but a few<\/span>. Men,<\/span> women, seniors and children rose up <\/span>as an impregnable wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

El <\/span>achievements<\/span> of the Soviet people reverberated throughout the world, <\/span>causing even a <\/span>bourgeois<\/span> newspaper such as the <\/span>Washington<\/span> Star<\/span>, to publish: “The Russia<\/span>n successes<\/span> in the fight against<\/span> <\/span>Hitler’s Germany is of great importance not only for Moscow and the Russian people, but also for Washington, for the future of the United States. History will pay homage to the Russians<\/span> f<\/span>or having <\/span>ended<\/span> the <\/span>blitzkrieg<\/span>, putting in <\/span>the adversary <\/span>to flight.<\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

The Battle of Stalingrad<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In June 1942, the invaders advanced, but found an insurmountable barrier in Stalingrad. During\u00a0<\/span>s<\/span>even months of combat, the invaders lost 700,000 soldiers and officers, more than a thousand tanks, two<\/span> t<\/span>housand guns and mortars, 1,400 aircraft.<\/span>
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The invaders were destroyed, “cooked in the cauldron of Stalingrad.<\/span>” In the defeat of Stalingrad, t<\/span>he Nazis lost 1.5 million soldiers and officers. “… From the moral <\/span>point of view, the catastrophe t<\/span>he German army suffered in the approaches of Stalingrad had an effect under the weight of which <\/span>it could no longer rise<\/span>“. <\/span>(<\/span>The Second World War<\/span>, B. <\/span>Lidell<\/span> Hart).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Battle of Stalingrad ended on February 2, 1943 with the victory of the Communists and marked the<\/span> t<\/span>urn<\/span>ing point of<\/span> the Second <\/span>World <\/span>War and<\/span>,<\/span> is considered the biggest and most bloody battle of all history.<\/span> <\/span>About that period, Stalin wrote: “The moral state of our army is superior to that of the German army,<\/span> f<\/span>o <\/span>it<\/span> defends the <\/span>homeland<\/span> against foreign usurpers and believes in the\u00a0<\/span>justice <\/span>of its own cause; w<\/span>hile the German army conducts <\/span>a war of pillage and spoliation in a foreign country, <\/span>not having the<\/span> p<\/span>ossibility of believing, even for a minute, in the <\/span>justice of <\/span>its infamous work.<\/span>\u201c<\/span> After <\/span>Stalingrad, conditions were <\/span>such<\/span> that dozens of other cities throughout the<\/span> <\/span>Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) <\/span>were <\/span>liberated from the yoke of the enemy in 1943 and<\/span> 1944, which, in turn, <\/span>established the conditions for the definitive expulsion of the invaders <\/span>from <\/span>the great Russian<\/span> homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With all these successes, the USSR prepared a gigantic counter-offensive to liberate, at the beginning of 1945,<\/span> the countries of <\/span>Eastern European, a large geographical area ranging from the countries covered by the<\/span> <\/span>Baltic Sea (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany) to the<\/span> <\/span>Carpathian region (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania and Ukraine). An important<\/span> f<\/span>actor for this new victory over the Nazis was the enormous support received by the Red Army from the<\/span> o<\/span>ppressed peoples, in particular the combatants of the communist parties. Following the <\/span>liberation<\/span> de<\/span> t<\/span>hese countries, the conditions were established for the USSR to direct its energies <\/span>to the final<\/span> defeat<\/span> of Nazi\/<\/span>fascism.<\/span><\/p>\n

The victory of the Caucasus followed, and the process of mass expulsion of the <\/span>Nazi <\/span>occupiers began.<\/span> <\/span>“The Soviet Union can boast of it<\/span>s heroic victories,” wrote the P<\/span>resident of the\u00a0<\/span>USA, Franklin Roosevelt, adding: “… the Russians kill more enemy soldiers and destroy more\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>rmaments than the other 25 United Nations states as a whole.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The end of 1943 <\/span>marked<\/span> the turn in the Soviet front and in the Secon<\/span>d War in general. The movement a<\/span>gainst Nazi fascism was consolidated and expanded throughout the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June 1944, with the German army <\/span>routed<\/span> in all regions of the USSR, Anglo-American <\/span>troops disembarked in the n<\/span>orth of France, beginning the western front proposed by<\/span> t<\/span>he Soviet government since the beginning of the invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

It can be said that by this time the war was decided <\/span>by<\/span> the German defeat in Russia. <\/span>Even<\/span> British Prime Minister Winston Chur<\/span>chill recognized<\/span> the f<\/span>undamental role of the Soviets. <\/span>In <\/span>a<\/span> speech given in the House of Commons in July 1944: “… I consider it my duty <\/span>to r<\/span>ecognize that Russia mobilizes and strikes forces far greater than those faced by the allies In the West, which, for many years, at the price of huge losse<\/span>s, carried the main burden of t<\/span>he fight on land.”<\/span><\/p>\n

A liberating army: “<\/span>To<\/span> Berlin!”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In spite of the immense losses, the Red Army advanced <\/span>on<\/span> the trail of the Germans <\/span>into Eastern Europe<\/span>, whipping the Nazis and helping the popular resistance forces to defeat <\/span>the occupiers<\/span> and their internal collaborators. Democratic-popular republics were elected with the Communist parties in <\/span>a leading role in <\/span>Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. “<\/span>To Berlin!” w<\/span>as the watchword of the liberating army. It was not <\/span>easy. The Nazi resistance, t<\/span>hough weakened, produced fierce and bloody fighting. The victorious Russians did not <\/span>butcher the enemy or<\/span> did not take revenge <\/span>for<\/span> the crimes committed by the Ger<\/span>man army on Soviet soil. <\/span>They fed the h<\/span>ungry, organized medical care, t<\/span>ransport, <\/span>and the <\/span>distribution of water and electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On May 2, 1945, the German <\/span>High<\/span> Command signed the act of unconditional <\/span>surrender of its a<\/span>rmed forces, with the flag of the USSR <\/span>waving<\/span> in the top of the German parliament, in Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n

On May 9, there was an immense <\/span>celebration<\/span> in Moscow commemorating the end of the Great Patriotic War<\/span> <\/span>(As the Soviets called their participation in World War II) and <\/span>from then u<\/span>ntil <\/span>now<\/span>, <\/span>this date <\/span>is celebrated in Russia as Victory Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Allied countries, <\/span>the <\/span>USA and England, deferred all concrete aid to the USSR (which was fighting on the eastern side). I<\/span>ts aim was to unleash a second w<\/span>ar (on the western side) against Germany, hoping that the Soviets would be defeated by the Nazis<\/span>. <\/span> Seeing the impossibility of <\/span>t<\/span>his wish com<\/span>ing<\/span> true and fearing that the USSR <\/span>would alone defeat the Nazis\/<\/span>fascists, <\/span>solo <\/span>on June 6, 1944 was the Second Front<\/span> <\/span>unleashed<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This event, <\/span>known in history as the Normandy <\/span>landing or the “D-Day\u201d is u<\/span>sually<\/span> <\/span>presented in various American books, magazines and films as the determining day that<\/span> g<\/span>uaranteed the definitive turn of the war. In fact, although the famous D-Day <\/span>invasion was<\/span> important,<\/span> the f<\/span>orces of the Nazi army had already been defeated by th<\/span>e USSR, which was in full swing, m<\/span>arch<\/span>ing in<\/span>to Germany, pushing back what remained of the Nazi troops back to Berlin.<\/span>
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The Red Army <\/span>also<\/span> contributed to the expulsion of the Nazis from China, <\/span>from <\/span>Korea and <\/span>to the <\/span>defeat of Japan. The sacrifice of the Soviet people was invaluable. But it was worth it because it fre<\/span>ed Humanity from the Nazi beast. <\/span>It was also the triumphant victory of socialism that eme<\/span>rged from the Second World War in <\/span>Eastern Europe and China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stalin’s role in <\/span>the <\/span>victory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he role of Comrade Stalin was fundamental<\/span> <\/span>for<\/span> this great victory of the Red <\/span>Army<\/span> <\/span>.<\/span> Let’s see what<\/span> <\/span>Aleksandr <\/span>Mikhaylovich<\/span> <\/span>Vasilevsky<\/span>, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Deputy Minister of Defense<\/span> d<\/span>uring World War II, <\/span>had to say <\/span>about Stalin’s conduct throughout the War: “Stalin was\u00a0<\/span>self-trained as a strategist. . . <\/span>After the battle of Stalingrad and particularly the battle of Kursk, he stood at the<\/span> center<\/span> of strategic direction. Stalin <\/span>went<\/span> on to think about managing t<\/span>he categories of modern warfare. <\/span>He <\/span>was<\/span> well acquainted with all questions of the preparation and <\/span>operational i<\/span>mplementation<\/span>. <\/span>He <\/span>demanded<\/span> that military operations be conducted in a creative way, <\/span>that they be energetic and <\/span>flexible<\/span>, <\/span>focusing on the d<\/span>isplacement and the siege of the enemy. His military thinking show<\/span>ed<\/span> clearly the tendency to<\/span> utilize<\/span> resources, to make a diversified use of all\u00a0<\/span>resources in the c<\/span>ommencement <\/span>and conduct <\/span>of operations. Stalin beg<\/span>a<\/span>n to understand well not only the strategy<\/span> o<\/span>f war, which was easy for him, for he possessed the wonderful art of political strategy, but also<\/span> the operational art.<\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, <\/span>Marshal <\/span>Georgi Zhukov<\/span>, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, attributed great merit to Stalin: “<\/span>It was due to<\/span> Joseph Stalin in <\/span>person that <\/span>solutions <\/span>were found to problems of military doctrine<\/span>, in particular those concerning processes <\/span>of a<\/span>rtillery attack<\/span>s<\/span>, the conquest of air dominance, the methods of the encirclement of the enemy, the <\/span>d<\/span>isplacement of <\/span>encircled<\/span> enemy contingents and their successiv<\/span>e destruction by clusters, etc.<\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he USSR suffered enormous losses<\/span> in the War<\/span>: 25 million Soviets died, <\/span>many<\/span> de\u00a0<\/span>them<\/span> members of the Communist Party. Practically, the Soviet people had to start\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>new. And <\/span>they did. In t<\/span>he words of V.I. Lenin: “It will never be possible to defeat a people\u00a0<\/span>i<\/span>n which the majority of workers and peasants know, feel and see that they defend their <\/span>soviet <\/span>power, the power of the workers; <\/span>w<\/span>ho defend a cause whose victory ensures to them and <\/span>su\u00a0<\/span>c<\/span>hildren the possibility of enjoying all the benefits of culture, everything that was created by <\/span>h<\/span>uman labor “. (V.I. Lenin, <\/span>Co<\/span>llected<\/span> Works<\/span>, XXIX)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Long live the October Socialist Revolution!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Long live the International Seminar!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Long live the unity of Latin American revolutionaries!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party – Brazil<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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