site.btaBSP - United Left Issues Statement to Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

BSP - United Left issued a statement in connection with the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, which was read by BSP - United Left MP Nataliya Kiselova in Parliament on Wednesday.

The statement read: "On January 27, we marked a sad day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. January 27, 1945, marks the liberation of one of the most horrific Nazi fascist concentration camps – Oswiecim Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp was liberated by the Red Army."

Kiselova said that the commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day expresses a belonging to modern human civilization. "The day is dedicated to the anti-fascist struggle because the denial of the Holocaust and racism is embedded in the foundations of our modern civilization. It is important today and in the days to come, when we remember this date, to constantly think about the attempts to downplay and even somehow justify the crimes of Hitler's regime. That is why we must constantly remind ourselves of them," she said.

She noted that the first law passed by the pro-fascist majority in the Reichstag was called the Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich, also known as the Enabling Act. It abolished fundamental civil rights proclaimed in the Weimar Constitution of 1919, which in 1933 was one of the most democratic in the world. The war against the Weimar Constitution was the political and legal backbone of Hitler's policy for the next 12 years, Kiselova stated.

The MP said that over the past 35 years, someone or other has always found the democratic principles of the Bulgarian Constitution from 1991 inconvenient, and those principles need to be protected. She added: "Let us also remember something else. In 1933, the left-wing parties in Germany, at that historic moment, were mired in internal struggles when Hitler rushed to power. What happened next is well known." She concluded that fascism should never be forgotten.