As noted in the document, on June 20, 2020, a two-meter-high monument to Vladimir Lenin appeared in Gelsenkirchen.
"It is outrageous that Lenin, the first leader of Soviet Russia and the criminal who, according to historians, is responsible for the death of up to six million people, is honored in a seemingly democratic Germany, with the assistance of which he came to Russia, and after him the revolution," emphasizes the MEP.
So, in his question to the European Commission, Crook also refers to the EP resolution of 2019, which calls for a pan-European condemnation of Nazism, Stalinism and other crimes of “totalitarian regimes”.
“It should be recalled that the communist regimes have a total responsibility for the death of about 100 million people, which is why communism is one of the bloodiest systems in the history of mankind,” the document says.
In this regard, the Polish deputy is interested in the European Commission whether its members believe that communist symbols should be banned in the EU, whether the EC will take any steps to remove this monument, and also “whether there are any concerns in this regard that Germany is returning to its totalitarian traditions. ”
On June 20, as RIA Novosti reported, at the initiative of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD), a statue of Lenin was erected in the city of Gelsenkirchen. Against this, according to the initiators of the installation of the monument, they spoke in the city administration, as well as in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. However, the court dismissed the lawsuit by local authorities.
Earlier in Poland, a monument of gratitude to the Red Army was demolished.
As stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, Russia will oppose attempts to falsify history from some European countries.