In the Presidium of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Ukraine
Last May 16, 2009, under the chairmanship of G.V. Buyko, there took place an important meeting of our Anti-Fascist Committee. We examined the celebration of May 9th, the Day of Victory over fascism and it was significantly evident that this date and this victory are very deeply ingrained in the psyche of our people and the role played by the Soviet Union and its glorious Red Army in the victory over fascism – that terrible hurricane of the 20th Century.
There were evaluations of our work since the last Conference and the effect of our unified work with other organizations and movements that took part in this unified march to celebrate the Victory over fascism. There were placards, signs and posters: "Down with Orange fascism!" – "Yushenko, your heroes were shooting our Red Army Soldiers in the back!" – "Banderovci – they are fascists!" – "Away with this national-fascist regime!"
At the meeting at the monument to V.I. Lenin, members of the Presidium spoke – N.F. Lavrinenko, A. Y. Naiman, Y. V. Shilovcev and M.K. Rodionov.
We adopted a protest statement against the holding in Kiev on May 16th of the "All Ukrainian Social-Nationalist Congress. If the people of Ukraine do not unite against this growing nationalist-fascist movement, there will be tragedies, bloodshed and loss of many lives in this struggle.
If we do not take immediate action at this time, it means that we are allowing fascism to grow and thousands of young people shall be the victims – this is one of the statements in our Protest Declaration. We also demanded that the government take steps to bring the leaders of this also all those that financially support this fascist movement in the Ukrainian government.
We appeal to the people of Ukraine to be vigilant – expose all of these nationalist-fascists, and always demonstrate against their actions.
