Finally, The Europe-Wide Day of Remembrance for the Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes was established. This memory and the corresponding commemoration are especially related to communism, communist post-war revolutionary totalitarianism in the countries of the Socialist Bloc, then fascism and Nazism.
In one of our dailies, a prominent columnist (in the issue of August 30 this year) wished to discuss that European Day of Remembrance. She listed such systems (fascism, communism…), and then, as if to correct herself, she added that (I quote) “… fascism was worse than communism”?!? Which of these political systems was worse, I wondered. Is the claim in the above column just a free assessment determined by the period in which the author grew up and her worldview? A reader of this column gets the impression that the author wants to “soften” the impression of communism by saying that it is lesser evil than fascism.
In any case, these are two ideologies that have captured people by doing evil to all mankind, and even today (after 70 years) and despite the proclaimed democracy, we see and bear the consequences of communism in our region.
Both ideologies are portrayed as lovers of man. Nazism wishes the German people well and claims that by exterminating the Jews it is doing a service to humanity. Leninist communism also directly wishes the whole world well, because from its initial cruelty and exclusivity it will later evolve into socialism with a “human face”?!? Both ideologies are similar in that they simultaneously prescribe the duty of killing people. In order to kill people, dissidents, the perpetrator must instill the idea that there is no God (“religion is the opium of the people”)! Both ideologies offer “sublime ideals” to manipulate and provoke rapturous allegiance to leaders, speak of re-educating humanity by creating a new man. Such proclamations and “scientific theses” served to achieve legitimacy in order to be understood as the only good?
Communism regularly repeated the mantra that in the new society “Everyone will work as much as they can, and take as much as they need”?!? Later, the working class realized the unreliability of these slogans and such teachings (socialist leaders say one thing and do another), so they quickly switched (as far as work is concerned) to the tacit slogan: “They will only pay me a small salary for the little work I do. “
The communist regime did not label people as Nazism did. National Socialism labeled the Jews as a kind of plague and infection, and the members of this people had to be destroyed in gas chambers, like some mosquito fogging. Communism had more work to do. It was necessary to liquidate all “enemies of socialism”, as enemies of the people, by removing the rich, capitalists, wealthy peasants, and then those who were not ideologically “on the line”. As socialism preferred the working class, the peasants were deprived of their land and the process of impoverishing farmers began. Parts of the rebellious workers went through a similar process by going to work abroad (mostly to Germany), and so did the advanced intelligentsia. There were also those for whom the saying “Revolution eats its children” was valid, because at a certain time they did not think the way the party dictated. All of them had to be identified, forced to admit hidden thoughts and non-existent guilt; by the denunciation of innocent people a sense of permanently burdened conscience was imposed upon them.
Furthermore, with regard to the “friends of humanity” it should be said that in the 20th century Lenin was the first to legalize abortion, and Hitler legalized euthanasia.
Who will free people from such deviations, if not Jesus who holds our destiny in his hand.
Born in 1953 in Bugojno, BiH. After graduating from high school, he came to study in Zagreb. At the religious education held for students in Frankopanska Street, near the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul, he meets Prof. Tomislav Ivančić, who then came from his studies in Rome, and remains with him in the religious Community with five more students. He spent the summer of 1975 with the Community in Davor, in the autumn of that year started publishing the magazine KORACI (STEPS, which is the predecessor of Hagio.hr), as a member of the editorial bord and the author of the editorial for the upcoming numbers. He has remained in Zagreb permanently, father of five children and, at the urge of Prof. Ivančić, founded his own business, and later a company. As a self-employed person for over thirty years of such work, he retires. He is
currently a member of the Hagio.hr editorial board.
