The Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, with the Communist parties of Greece and Mexico, has issued a statement condemning recent attempts in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to erase and criminalize celebration of the region's Soviet past, to ban Communist and workers' parties and to rehabilitate Nazi and fascist collaborators.
The Communist and workers' parties condemn attempts to ban Soviet symbols and communist ideology in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as well as the adoption of the law on the final rehabilitation of "victims of Stalinist repressions of 1918-1953" by the Kyrgyz Parliament, which opens the gates for the mass rehabilitation of criminals, bandit members, terrorists, Basmachi and Nazi collaborators.
At the end of December last year, Kazakhstan also adopted a decision by the State Commission for the Final Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression to acquit 311 thousand people, many of whom are criminal offenders or persons with weapons who fought against the Red Army and the Soviet government.
Among those acquitted were members of terrorist organizations, spies, fighters of Basmachian gangs and anti-Soviet uprisings of the collectivization period, as well as collaborators who joined the service of Nazi Germany and were in the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht and Eastern Muslim SS units. Many of them have the blood of Soviet citizens, party and Komsomol activists on their hands.
It should be noted that the adopted law on rehabilitation in Kyrgyzstan is an exact copy of the draft law on final rehabilitation in 2019, prepared by the local Soros-Kyrgyzstan Foundation and the Open Government, funded by USAID. The text of this draft also formed the basis for the decree of the President of Kazakhstan on the establishment of the State Commission for Final Rehabilitation in November 2020, as well as the decision of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan dated 2021 on the rehabilitation of 115 leaders of the Basmati movement, which indicates a common methodology and scheme introduced from the outside in the former Soviet Central Asia.
In this regard, as part of the campaign for total decommunization, the exaltation of the leaders of anti-Soviet movements is also underway. So, in Kazakhstan, five thousand Soviet names of settlements and streets were renamed in three years, but at the same time 15 streets appeared in honor of the founder of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht and Muslim SS units Mustafa Shokai, and several monuments were opened to him.
In neighboring Uzbekistan, the leader of the counterrevolutionary Basmati movement, Ibrahim bey, is being exalted, closely associated with British intelligence and the feudal elite overthrown by the Soviet government. In addition, the authorities of this republic are introducing a "memorial week" designed to show the "crimes" of the Communists and demonstrate the role of the USSR in carrying out the "genocide" of Uzbeks.
For these purposes, deputies of the Parliament of Uzbekistan initiated a bill to ban Soviet symbols and communist ideology, although the Communist Party itself was banned back in the mid-90s by order of President Islam Karimov. This proposal was announced on September 4 by the head of the nationalist National Renaissance Party and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alisher Kadyrov.
Earlier, on May 10, in Kazakhstan, the same initiative was put forward by deputy of the Mazhilis Abzal Kuspan, who proposed at the legislative level to ban Soviet symbols, communist ideology and criminalize propaganda of the USSR. Several dozen deputies supported this proposal and began preparing a bill, despite the fact that the Communist Party of Kazakhstan was liquidated by a court in 2015, and the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan is denied registration.
The Communist and workers' parties oppose the desire of the authorities of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to rewrite history, rehabilitate those who participated in the armed struggle against the Soviet government, and ban communist ideology. It is obvious that in parallel with this process there is an attack on the social and political rights of workers, mass privatization is being carried out, budget cuts are being carried out and these initiatives should ideologically consolidate the restoration of capitalism and stigmatize the very desire to build a classless society and fighters for socialism.
SolidNet Parties signing the Joint Statement
Communist Party of Greece
Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
Communist Party of Mexico
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