Statement for Victory Day 2026
Victory Day is a living struggle. We preserve the memory of these historic, glorious events not merely by retelling them, but by ensuring the results are upheld.
Comrades,
Today, May 9th, 2026, we celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. We honour the bravery and sacrifices of Soviet soldiers and civilians alike during the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and deeply remember the 27 million who fearlessly gave their lives for the fight against Nazism.
Yet we cannot grow complacent in our victory. Victory Day is a living struggle. We preserve the memory of these historic, glorious events not merely by retelling them, but by ensuring the results are upheld. 81 years later, the fight against fascism and imperialism continues.
Both Japan and Germany have continued their active erasure and whitewashing of their Great Patriotic War histories. As reported by Berliner Morgenpost, the Berlin Police has issued bans on Russian, Belarusian, Chechen, and Soviet symbols at Victory Day events, with only partial exceptions for diplomats and veterans. Japan, similarly, has continued to engage in historical revisionism, including but not limited to the diminishing of war crimes in textbooks and rising militarism. We strongly condemn the actions of these two states and urge the respective governments to correct their erroneous actions.
In West Asia, Imperialist America and the so-called “State of Israel” are committing a Holocaust of their own against the Palestinian people, who have bravely and righteously fought back against these oppressive occupiers. The two colonial-settler states, undoubtedly the biggest obstructions to world peace in the modern era, continue their incorrect and unjust war in Iran and in Lebanon.
The right-wing trend continues domestically in Imperialist America, enabled not only by the conservative white supremacists, but also by the nonviolent liberal “activists” who “condemn both sides” and continue their inaction despite the historical fact that voting and “peaceful protest” have never once defeated fascism, only armed struggle. We strive to oppose unjust war with just war, as Chairman Mao Tse-tung noted:
There are only two kinds of wars in history, just and unjust. We support just wars and oppose unjust wars. All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.
Chairman Mao Tse-tung, On Protracted Warfare (1938)
The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and of Sudan are not forgotten. A Congolese researcher has noted “that genocide ideology in DR Congo is now ‘at its peak’ [and] should trouble every responsible actor in the region and beyond. It is not merely another alarm in a long-running conflict.” Published by The New Times, the article asserts:
The United Nations, in particular, must be called out. It has maintained a long and expensive presence in DR Congo. It has seen this ideology grow. It has documented violence, issued statements, deployed missions, and convened meetings. Yet, for the communities living under threat, little has changed. A peacekeeping presence that watches hate ideology mature into organised violence without decisive action cannot be considered sufficient.
The Sudanese genocide is ongoing, enabled by the international arms trade and world governments. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—whose arms, supplies, diplomatic legitimacy, etc. are supplied in part by Imperialist America—have displaced and erased entire communities in just a few years. Their actions are firmly opposed by the international community.
In the Ukraine, neo-Nazism has gone ignored, and Russia has once again stepped up to combat these incorrect ideologies and reunite the Russian people with their brothers in the Ukraine, who have been instrumentalized by the Zelenskiy regime, NATO, and the West.
These are only some of the issues in the world today, and there are undoubtedly many more problems that must be staunchly opposed. We remember the sacrifices of our Soviet brethren by continuing their fight, ensuring that fascism will “never again” return, regardless of which flag is flown.
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