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The battle for Europe’s past and future
The EU's bid to draw an equivalence between communism and fascism isn't just a distortion of history – it's part of a drive towards war, writes JONATHAN WHITE
A couple look at The Motherland Calls, a monument to the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad that turned the tide against the nazis in World War II. The EU now seeks to blame the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany equally for the war

WHILE Labour Party members were gearing up for their conference this year, they were probably unaware that their representatives in the European Parliament were quietly participating in an extraordinary exercise in the falsification of history.

On September 18, the Parliament voted by 535 votes to 66 to support a resolution with the seemingly innocuous title, “On the Importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe.”

The resolution was supported by the Socialist group (S&D). All of Labour’s MEPs voted for the motion, with the exception of one, who did not vote. Only the European United Left/Nordic Green Left voted against it as a bloc.

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