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Communist Party of Ukraine addresses open letter to the Ukrainian and Russian peoples
Julius Fucik, a Czechoslovak communist martyr who was hanged by the nazis in 1943
UKRAINE’S Communist Party published an open letter to the peoples of Ukraine and Russia today, warning against the rise of fascism and of bids by the ruling elites in each country to turn their populations against one another.
Citing Julius Fucik, the Czechoslovak communist martyr hanged by the nazis in 1943, and his warning – “people, be careful!” – the party’s central committee urged a “co-ordinated struggle against the forces of neofascism, territorial nationalism and anti-communism” and for “a voice of protest against Russophobia and Ukrainophobia.”
It blamed media in both countries for pitting one populace against another and warned of “distortion and blackening of the history of Ukrainian-Russian friendship.”
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