AKEL commemorates the 9th of May, the day of the Antifascist Victory that ended the Second World War by rescuing humanity from the ravages of Nazism, it said in a statement paying tribute to all the peoples of the world who rallied in the anti-Hitler coalition, to the fighters of the Resistance movements throughout Europe.
"We honour the leading contribution of the Soviet Union which, at the cost of the sacrifice of tens of millions of people, sealed the victory of the peoples of the world. We remember with respect and pride the thousands of Cypriot volunteers - Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots - who gave their lives on the fields of war. A page of honour and glory in the history of the Party and Cyprus is the AKEL decision of 16 June 1943, by which hundreds of Cypriots volunteered and fought Hitlerism."
The anniversary, it adds, recalls the brutality of war and the nature of fascism, which gave birth to the concentration camps and the Holocaust. "It reminds us of the magnitude of the threat posed by today's fascist far-right, which is governed by the same misanthropic ideology that bloodied Europe and the world. The memory and honour of 9 May calls for a consistent struggle against fascism that targets democratic freedoms and human rights, social achievements and peace".
May 9 and the red flag at the Reichstag were and will remain a world-historical and universal symbol of the power of peoples before which no one is invincible, the statement concludes.
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