The KKE MEPs Kostas Papadakis and Lefteris Nikolaou - Alavanos, in a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the members of the European Commission, underline, among other things:

“We are writing to denounce the unacceptable letter circulating these days as an initiative of five MEPs of the European People’s Party (EPP), addressed to the President of the European Commission, which ‘urges’ the EU to ban ‘the use of Russian and Soviet symbols’, the hammer and sickle, and proposes a legal framework based on the reactionary ‘theory of two extremes’, invoking the fight against totalitarian regimes. The letter goes so far as to call for a ‘ban on the public display and dissemination of symbols of the Soviet Union’ and the removal of statues, monuments and other objects from public spaces in the EU, effectively criminalising free political action and even artistic creation.

They are trying in vain to identify the perpetrator of Nazi-fascist atrocities with its most sworn enemy: the USSR, the Communist Parties, the millions of partisans in the resistance movements who sacrificed their lives in the struggle against fascism and Nazi occupation in dozens of countries, with the very banners that these MEPs are now provocatively calling for to be criminalised”.

13.05.2025