Police confiscate copies of Junge Welt
Via Junge Welt and the KKE - translations from the German via Helmut-Harry Loewen
In a shameful action on May 9, German police in Berlin attempted to break up commemorations of the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World War II.
Police confiscated copies of the leftist newspaper Junge Welt at the event held at the memorial to Soviet soldiers in Treptower Park in Berlin. This is the third year that authorities in Berlin have banned the display of any image or flag bearing a red star, hammer and sickle, or the Russian Federation flag at events honouring the sacrifice of the peoples of the Soviet Union in the military defeat of the Nazi regime.
“Once the day of liberation - today a day of German shame. The liberators are not allowed to be honoured with dignity, but symbols of the Banderists and other collaborators of Hitler-fascism can be displayed. This must be understood as an acknowledgement of a far more gruesome truth. The historical successors of Hitler's helpers are being armed and trained by the coalition government* and can thus help to ignite the third world conflagration. If anti-fascists do not stop this Globke Germany**, there will be no tomorrow.“ German journalist Susann Witt-Stahl wrote of this ban.
The KKE reports that despite "the ban on banners and symbols of the USSR, members and friends of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) met at the Soviet Monument in Treptower Park in Berlin and jointly laid a wreath at the foot of the magnificent statue of the Soviet Soldier-Liberator, commemorating 9 May and the 79th anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples."
* The government of Chancellor Olof Scholz is a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and rightist Free Democrats.
** Hans Globke, a leading Nazi jurist who annotated the Nuremberg Laws and was responsible for numerous measures against Germany’s Jews, served as West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s chief advisor (1953–1963).
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