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Today, May 8, marks the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi
Germany to the combined forces of the United States, Soviet Union, and
other forces who joined to free Europe from fascism. The Soviet Union,
in some of the bloodiest battles ever fought, lost over 27 million
people in their war against Germany, and bore the brunt of the
conflict with the support of the U.S. and other allies. Tomorrow,
Russia will officially celebrate Victory Day in what they call the
Great Patriotic War.
Heads of state and government from all around the world will be
participating in Moscow to celebrate Russia’s crucial and historic
victory against the forces of fascism. That includes China, Brazil,
Egypt, Slovakia, Serbia, and many others.
The historic link-up between the forces of the United States and
the Soviet Union at the river Elbe, 80 years ago, led to the creation
of the ‘Spirit of the Elbe’ “dedicated to the peoples of all nations
resolving their differences without war, and should be an eternal
beacon to light the future courses of all Nations working together for
the mutual benefit of all people.”
Unfortunately, the commitment to “Never Again” repeating the same
mistakes which led to world wars in the 20th Century have been
deliberately ignored by an unholy imperialist alliance between Global
NATO and the City of London and Wall Street, which after the breakup
of the Soviet Union in 1991 deployed itself against Russia, using
Ukraine and other proxies as battering rams to balkanize, and if
necessary destroy Russia with nuclear weapons.
We can either destroy ourselves in a thermonuclear war, which now
threatens to emerge in three separate hotspots of the world—Ukraine,
Southwest Asia, and India-Pakistan—or engage in creating a new ‘Spirit
of the Elbe’ among all nations in the world, cooperating for mutual
benefit and economic development. That was the post-war vision of
President Franklin Roosevelt, which American economist and statesman
Lyndon LaRouche dedicated himself to following and making a reality
during his wartime service in Calcutta, India. He recalled that
mission in an article, written in 2010 and published in EIR, “IT WAS
NO CONSPIRACY! MacArthur & Eisenhower.” He wrote,
“Today, I am among the mere handful of those few still living
veterans of a certain past military service, who were part of what
some people today would call, mistakenly, “a conspiracy.” Today, we
few represent that handful of those veterans who, today, had lived
through that awful morning when the news had come, that our greatly
beloved President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died. Ours is simply
the patriotism of those, among us at that time, who had reacted with a
certain, special devotion to that sense of patriotic mission to which
we had been called during what was, still then, the ongoing great,
long war.
That was, at first, no more than the silent oath to which I
committed myself when the news of President Roosevelt’s death reached
the few of us who would be gathered that evening in a military
encampment at Kanchrapara in Bengal, India. When we met quietly in the
dusk of that evening, there, I replied to that group of
fellow-soldiers who came to me to ask their question. My words from
that past are carved in memory still today: “We have been led, until
now, by a great President, who has now died. The new President is a
little man, and, I am afraid for our country, now.” One remembers
things like that.
Today, I, for one, am still standing. Let my thought tonight seem
to touch your shoulder, “patriot,” as someone, long ago, had seemed to
touch my own. There was no “conspiracy” beyond doing one’s duty, even
still today, when a silent trumpet calls those few, old, soldiers who
never really die.”
Those immortal men and women who either fought directly against
fascism or contributed to that fight back home should be the
inspiration for what we must do today, as citizens and patriots of our
own nations and the world as a whole. Our program today will focus on
that.
Speakers: Dennis Speed and Jose Vega
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