Posted by
Dale Yeager on Sunday, August 10, 2008 6:00:00 AM
Recently the EU set new rules to deal with hate crimes and racism. This is a positive step for the EU members to take. However, after six years of negotiation, by justice ministers, the Baltic States and Poland have given up their efforts to include “Stalinist crimes” in the section dealing with genocide.
The Nazi led Holocaust is in the genocide section of the proposal but not the genocide of people in former Communist states.
I am outraged by this action. The love affair that socialists [politically left leaning politicians] in Western Europe continue to have with Marxism rears its ugly head again. I believe that a little history lesson is in order.
Hitler was a socialist. His party was known as the National Socialist German Workers' Party [Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP]. While the fickle Hitler studied Marx and considered socialism the solution to German’s problems, he also associated Communism with Jewish leaders.
Hitler nationalized many industries within German once he came to power, instituted a smoking ban and national diet and exercise regime and nationalized manufacturing i.e. the Volkswagen.
What was the difference between Stalin and Hitler? Hitler was obsessed with race Stalin was obsessed with class. Two side of the same coin! Sixty-two years later Western European leaders are still trying to incorporate Marxist ideas into their pseudo democracies. They call it Social democracy. I call it toying with an evil system that has increased poverty and murdered 240 million of its own citizens in the 20th century.
When will the leaders of the EU realize that justice is for all victims of oppressive regimes? Sadly never.