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Foundation for Investigation of Communist Crimes.
11.03.2009
An international conference concerning the crimes of communism was held in Budapest on the 6-8 of March. The conference was organized by the The European Foundation for the Disclosure and Investigation of Communist Crimes. Institutions, embassies and organizations from Europe, USA and Canada were invited. In the conference delegates discussed the situation in the World in context of condemnation of communists crimes. It was stated that in the World knowledge of communist crimes is still very low. It is unimagible to wear Adolf Hitler T-shirt, but Che Guevara, Mao or Lenin T-shirts are in public sell around the World. When nazi crimes are rightfully condemned, the same has not happened with communist crimes. The question is not only in Stalinist crimes, communism has killed more as 100 million people around the World - and the list is growing. Communism has from the beginning been evil idea, who's answer to the World problems was violence and terror. When we could not deal with past, we must relive it. Condemnation of communist crimes is only way to avoid, that some people get again idea to kill other people, because they belong to "wrong" political or social group. They know, that killing other people for racial or religious grounds is not welcomed, but till communism exists killing people for political or social reasons looks for some people not so bad idea.
Among other initiatives a joint letter was sent by the delegates to the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt concerning the Swedish EU Presidency and the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of from Communism, the democratization of the Baltic states, Eastern and Central Europe, and the peaceful reunification of the continent. European Parliament has declared 23.August remebrance day of victims of communism and nazism. On 23.august 1939 nazi Germany and communist Russia signed so called Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, dividing the World and launching the II World War. Week later, on 01.September 1939 Hitler attacked Poland from one side, on 17.september Stalin from other side. As a result of pact nations of Central and Eastern Europe lost millions of their citizens to nazi and Soviet terror, liberating themselves from totalitarianism only after fall of communism.
The letter was signed by delegates from the United States, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Sweden, the Ukraine, Austria and England.