EDON on Holocaust Remembrance Day
It was 27th January 1945, when the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated 7,000 remaining prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Sixty years later, the UN General Assembly designated this day as Holocaust Remembrance Day and in honor of all those who were perished as martyrs in the Nazi concentration camps.
This day reminds us that when humanity is overwhelmed by hatred and aversion to anything different, when ideological concepts of hatred and racism prevail in the collective consciousness of a people, then people can go so far as committing the most inhuman of crimes, bathing the earth with unconceivable amounts from blood shed by innocent people, including children.
76 years ago and while the flag of Hitler fascism covered almost all of Europe, millions of Europeans, Roma, communists, minorities, homosexuals, people with disabilities and all sorts of people who were considered by the Nazis not "worthy" of the standards of the pure white "Aryan race", left their final breath in the most brutal way in the concentration camps.
Not many years have passed since then, and even before the blood of innocent people has dried on Europe’s aching soil, the descendants of shame are making yet another attempt to return to power. The ideas of Nazism and fascism have not disappeared, nor have they changed, and therefore they cannot be considered as part of any democratic procedure. They may be disguised, they may change form and mode of operation, but they remain just as dangerous. Gender discrimination, racism, hatred of anything different with fascism always ready to act as a reserve force of the system itself.
As EDON, we have always combatted the ideological concepts of hatred here in our country as well, fighting for a Cyprus without any discriminations and racism, combatting the notions of supposedly "superior and inferior races" and "normal and abnormal" people.
Press Bureau
of the CC of EDON
27th January 2021, Nicosia