Eighty years have passed since the anti-fascist victory of the peoples on 9 May 1945. Despite the passing of time, interest in the significance of this historic event is growing, especially today, as the Third World War (WWIII) escalates on all operational fronts.
This was a war in which the anti-fascist front triumphantly emerged victorious, with the USSR and the Red Army, the Chinese Revolution and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army playing a decisive role.
The USSR inflicted 77% of the losses on the anti-Comintern fascist axis during WWII. The death toll in this war was immense: 27 million Soviets and 37 million Chinese, both military and civilian! Worldwide, more than 100 million people were killed.
Fascism was and remains the most aggressive, reactionary and counter-revolutionary form of imperialist ideology and politics, the most extreme anti-people, anti-worker and anti-communist strike force of the financial oligarchy regime.
For this reason, the leading role of the communists in the frontal struggle was decisive. Guided by the political direction of the Third International, they led the anti-fascist struggle in all countries and continents with selflessness and self-sacrifice.
Today, humanity is called upon to confront the barbaric aggression of the imperialist forces and the financial oligarchy, the only imperialist axis of the USA-NATO-EU and their satellites. An axis that is in existential panic due to the rapid rise of the global forces of anti-imperialism and socialism.
The imperialist propaganda and practices of the Western powers (US, NATO, EU) have launched a shameless campaign of historical distortion, downplaying the contributions of the USSR, the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to victory. They strive not only to equate socialism/communism with fascism/nazism under the vile ideology of “totalitarianism” and “authoritarian regimes”, but also to glorify fascism/nazism, promoting the fascisation of societies, as seen in the racist zionist entity and the nazi regime of the Kiev junta for their instrumental aims.
Fascism was not finally eradicated after WWII but is resurfacing in new forms as a tool of the imperialist forces, especially under Trump’s presidency in the US, with attempts to revive a “black far-right and fascist international.”
The life and death struggle of the anti-imperialist, anti-neocolonial and socialist forces against the USA-led imperialist axis dictates today the need to form and develop a victorious anti-imperialist front at national, regional and global levels. Global solidarity is needed to face the threat of escalation to a war with weapons of mass destruction.
The WAP salutes the struggle of the oppressed peoples of Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe against neo-colonial dependency, for national independence, popular sovereignty and for equal and mutually beneficial relations with the prospect of socialism.
The WAP praises the struggle of the soldiers of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, who today fight fascism and imperialism alongside the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
The WAP welcomes the initiative of the anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, progressive and communist organisations in Greece, together with the descendants of the fighters of the Soviet Army in Greece, for 9 May. We believe that such initiatives continue the best traditions of the Greek people’s movement, following in the footsteps of the heroic fighters of EAM, ELAS, the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) and the anti-dictatorship struggle against the US-backed fascist-type military junta of 1967-1974.
It is the joint anti-imperialist and anti-fascist front that gives a message of hope to the peoples. As in 1945, so today, in WWIII, the peoples can defeat imperialism and fascism through unity and consistency in the struggle against the present imperialist axis. This was unanimously confirmed at the recent massive 2nd International Anti-Fascist Forum organised by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Moscow, 22-24 April 2025).
The unity of the struggle requires exposing and isolating divisive ideologies and practices that confuse, fragment and undermine the movement through various tactics-such as hegemonism, manipulation, so-called “equal distances” in war, etc.
– Defeat of NATO and imperialism – fascism was crushed by the Red Army!
– Death to fascism and imperialism!
– With a united front we crush imperialism – death to the axis and fascism!
– Victory to the anti-imperialist and socialist forces!