Greek Communist exposes the KKE leadership as “Slimy, repulisive and insolent cynical agents of subversion and disruption.”

Original Article by Dimitrios Patelis| Revolutionary Unification (Greece)

Therefore, we cannot allow the renegades, those who have been playing for years the rigged game of conspiracies, brazen interventions in the internal affairs of fraternal parties and organisations, with their ruthless manipulative practices typical of the degeneration, undermining and disintegration of the movement, to win in this confrontation: blackmail and coercion from above, negotiations behind the back, recruitment, coups, take-overs, splits, misuse of the parties’ online and financial resources, ultimatums, etc.. Exclusivity in the use of such toxic negativity, such dirty and deplorable means, has been claimed and deservedly captured by the renegades of the KKE, who, with the arrogance of the self-appointed and self-righteous leader/despot that they display, have now lost every trace of comrade morality, respect and credibility among fellow militants and comrades on a global scale, as slimy, repulsive and insolent cynical agents of subversion and disruption, as an example to be avoided.

 

Just as truth cannot be attained through a flawed cognitive process, so the high objectives of the movement cannot be attained through means, ways, paths and subjects that do not measure up to them. Every attempt to pursue a high and true objective by vile, distorted, alien means, and so on, ultimately leads to the abandonment of that objective, to its neglect, to the service of alien objectives and interests. This is what the Marxist approach on the dialectical relationship between ends and means clearly teaches.

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By Henry Jackson

We warn all Greek Communists that the US State Department seems to have considerable influence among the leadership of their Greek Communist Party (KKE). For we have discovered that the KKE has parroted a statement of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in their embarrassing denunciation of Russia’s “recognition of the ‘independence’ of the so-called ‘People’s Republics’ in Donbas” made on February 22, 2022.¹ I refer to the KKE’s designation of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic as “so-called People’s Republics”. This “so-called” designation comes from Blinken’s response to the Russian State Duma’s request to President Putin to recognize the independence of the two Donbass Republics. Blinken said on Feb. 16, 2022, “The Russian Duma has stated that it plans to send to President Putin an appeal to recognize the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as “independent.”² Not only has the KKE leadership joined with the US State Department in denouncing Russia’s recognition of the Donbass Republics, but it also obediently calls those republics “so-called People’s Republics,” just as Blinken does. Moreover, KKE even copies Blinken’s use of quotation marks around “independence” and his misspelling of ‘Luhansk’ for Lugansk!

The Donbass People’s Republics were founded in 2014 after the ‘Maidan’ coup in Kiev overthrew the elected government of the Ukraine. It all started on February 21, 2014 with a demonstration of citizens around the statue of Lenin in central Donetsk to protect the statue from Ukrainian fascists who had vowed to tear it down³ [ed.: see photo in vid at marks 751 and 822]. The demonstration was organized by members of the Communist Party of the Ukraine (KPU), led by Boris Litvinov. Both Communists and non-Communists in Donetsk wanted the federalization of the Ukraine, Litvinov told Loic Ramirez in an interview with Le Grand Soir. He explained that people in the different regions of the Ukraine–Central, East, South, West—had different ideas of the future of the Ukraine, so the suggestion was that with federalization each region could pursue their own ideas. Nobody in the Ukrainian government, however, wanted to listen to what the people wanted, even though Article V of the Ukrainian constitution says political power rests with the people, Litvinov related. Finally, the Communists began to organize a People’s Congress of all the different Donetsk movements and political parties in accordance with traditional Russian direct democracy known in old Russia as “Veche”. By April 6, 2014, the people had given the Communists the papers of 80% of the delegates of the Congress. Twelve thousand people filled the square in front of the government building in Donetsk to present their demands for a People’s Congress to the government [ed.: see photos in vid at marks 1213-1236 ]. A nationalist militia was defending the building. The people said they would stay there until morning. Ultimately, the people dispersed the militia, took over the building and founded the Donetsk People’s Council or Soviet, with Litvinov as President. Later in 2014, on 8 October, the Communist Party of Donetsk (CPD) was officially founded out of members of the KPU in the Donetsk area, with Litvinov as general secretary. The CPD became the only real political party officially registered in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Litvinov claims. “Donetsk has always been a Communist country,” explained Litvinov. “Collectivism is in the heart and blood of many people here. Whether you like it or not there have been and will be Communists here,” he said.

At the time of the founding of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party had 15 deputies in the Donetsk Soviet. Later in 2016, after the situation had calmed down, the Communists were brushed aside and removed from power by Russian liberals. The number of Communist deputies was reduced to 3, then to two after the death of one on the battlefield, who was not replaced; then since 2016 the CPD has had no deputies in the Soviet but only sympathizers. So, the Party turned to building itself up, so that by 2022, it has 1100 members. These members have played a big role in defending the Republic. Communists have been dying in eastern Ukraine fighting the fascists the of Kiev regime for ten years. Such were the heroes, Arseny Pavlov (“Motorola,” assassinated by Ukraine secret service in October 2016), Mikhail Tolstykh (“Givi,” assassinated in February 2017), and Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko (assassinated in August 2018) [ed.: we could always use pictures of these guys]. Also there was Vadim Zaibert, early a member of the People’s Council (Soviet) of the Donetsk People’s Republic. As Galina Petrova of Left Russia wrote in 2016, “In defense of the DNR, the Communists have made a very significant contribution. For example, there should be three deputies from the CP DNR in the People’s Soviet. Yet one of them, Vadim Yakovlevich Zaybert, commander of one of the largest compounds of the Donetsk militia, died at Debal’cevo,”⁴ the site of a major battle in early 2015. Other Communists fighting for Donetsk included: “Anatoliy Hmelevoy…He is currently the second secretary of CP DNR, but in the past has been the first secretary of the Slavyansk city committee of the KPU, he has been many times elected as deputy of the Verhovna Rada (parliament of the Ukraine)…When Ukrainian fascists went to war against DNR, Hmelevoy defended his Slavyansk from within [Igor] Strelkov’s detachment. ‘It was hot’,remembers Anatoliy Petrovich. Well, now it’s not easier, especially if you are a dedicated principled communist,” wrote Left Russia.

But why does Donetsk defy the central government, Ramirez asked Litvinov again in the 2022 interview. “The Ukraine is no longer a sovereign country. It is an instrument” of NATO, explains Litvinov.⁵ “It is necessary for us to defeat fascism,” he said. But in this war, isn’t Russia imperialist? asked Le Grand Soir. “Russia is capitalist,” answered Litvinov, “but it is not imperialist.” Litvinov compared the present Donbass war of national liberation to the Spanish Civil War. Wars of liberation today often unite bourgeois nationalists with revolutionary socialists, as also occurred in China’s war of liberation against Japan. Litvinov quoted Mao Tsé Toung: “When imperialism launches a war of aggression against a country, the various classes of that country…can unite temporarily in a national war against imperialism.” All the other contradictions between the ruling class and the exploited classes of the same country “temporarily pass to second place and a subordinate position,” explained Mao. Similarly so, in Donbass, argues Litvinov.

In conclusion, the Donetsk People’s Republics was founded by Communists, is governed by a People’s Council or Soviet, and with the Lugansk People’s Republic is conducting a national war of liberation lead by Communists fighters. In Lugansk, the ruling governmental body is the People’s Council of the Lugansk People’s Republic. Although the Kiev regime has cut off pension payments to retirees living in Donbass, the People’s Republics with the help of Russia have restored pension payments.⁶ This all adds up: the Donbass Republics are “People’s Republics.” This article refutes the KKE-State Department anti-Communist propaganda that the Donbass Republics are not really People’s Republics.

References:

1 http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-On-the-recognition-of-the-independence-of-the-so-called-Peoples-Republics-in-Donbas/
2 https://ua.usembassy.gov/russian-duma-resolution-on-eastern-ukraine/
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpcV9r4H0g8 This video includes Loic Ramirez’s interview with Litvinov, which is a main source for this article.
4 https://leftrussia.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/donetsk-the-third-extraordinary-congress-of-the-communist-party-of-the-dnr-took-place/
5 https://www.legrandsoir.info/l-art-du-possible-la-position-des-communistes-face-a-l-invasion-russe-de-l-ukraine.html This is the article that Ramirez wrote based on the interview with Litvinov noted above.
6 https://anti-empire.com/huge-russia-to-start-paying-out-pensions-of-donbass-retirees/

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