International Day against Fascism, Racism and Anti-Semitism

Dear Pridnestrovians!

The 20th century has become a "golden age" for mankind in science, technology, medicine and many other spheres of life. But one of the darkest pages in human history, fascism, is also associated with the 20th century. This ideology, which practices the division of humanity into full-fledged and inferior peoples, a policy of unlimited violence against individual social groups of dissenting citizens and entire nations along ethnic lines, has brought death to millions of citizens and destroyed entire countries and regions.

We all remember well the misfortune that German fascism brought to the peoples of the USSR, doomed according to the Ost plan to destruction, the genocide of the Jewish people and Gypsies who were to be destroyed at the root, the genocide of the Chinese and Koreans unleashed by the Japanese military, the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime ... And this is not a complete list of the troubles that the peoples of the Earth bring to the people of politics based on racial differences and national intolerance.

The people of Pridnestrovie in the XX century faced manifestations of fascism three times: in the 30s, when the Romanian fascists forbade Moldovan peasants, as inferior people, to enter the center of the city of Bendery, during the Great Patriotic War, when German fascists massacred the Jewish population with cynical cruelty our region, and in the 90s, when the pro-Romanian minority that had seized power, denied the Moldovans their own national identity, deprived them of their own language, and confronted foreign-speaking citizens with a simple, implanted weapon with a choice - to become a refugee or a second-class person.

Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, at the cost of their lives, defeated fascism and rid the world of this plague, and our fathers fought back the revanchists in 1992. Our task is not only to preserve the memory of their feat, but also to prevent the revival of fascism and nationalism in any of its manifestations.

Talking about the crimes of Nazism, we warn today's youth about what the future could be if we do not say "Never again!"

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council 

of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

Mikhail Burla