Yesterday, January 27, we marked a sad day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. On January 27, 1945, one of the most horrific German-fascist concentration camps was liberated - Auschwitz (Auschwitz) - Birkenau. The camp was liberated by the Red Army. The Third Reich was a 12-year celebration of anti-humanism, illegality and anti-constitutionalism. Assoc. Prof. Natalia Kiselova stated this from the parliamentary rostrum and continued:
By a UN act, January 27 was designated as an international day to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The celebration expresses our belonging to modern human civilization. The day is dedicated to the anti-fascist struggle, because the denial of the Holocaust and racism is embedded in the foundations of our modern civilization.
It is important today, and in the days to come, when we remember this date, to constantly think about the attempts to belittle and even somehow justify the crimes of the Hitler regime. That is why we must constantly remember them.
Today, people in brown uniforms rarely march on the streets of European cities. However, brown ideas are being established, quietly, imperceptibly, mixed in with the great chatter that erases the line between victim and executioner. Fascism is the most monstrous political doctrine that humanity has created.
Where did it all begin?
In 1918, Kaiser Germany lost the World War. A powerful political crisis unfolded in the country. Germany is republicanizing and radicalizing. Right-wing, far-right, and revanchist organizations are springing up. Corporal Adolf Hitler finds his place in one of them. Later, he will present himself as the founder of his German National Socialist Workers' Party.
In an extremely demagogic way, the National Socialists - members of an ultra-racist, initially small party - are trying to build a bridge to the working classes, replacing the socio-political struggle with a racial one. This meanness costs the people dearly later. The German people were led astray by militarism. They paid a huge price, but many other peoples paid it too.
Hitler's regime is a kind of peak in political demagogy. He comes to power with a far-right, ultra-elitist political doctrine. The first law of the pro-fascist majority, introduced in the Reichstag, was called the Law for the Elimination of the Misfortunes of the People and the State, also called the Enabling Act. It abolished basic civil rights proclaimed in the Weimar Constitution, which by 1933 was one of the most democratic in the world. The war against the Weimar Constitution was the political and legal backbone of Hitler's policy for the next 12 years.
Let us recall a maxim of Hitler's, which reflects the philosophy of racism: “The world is not for cowardly races…“. As early as 1922, the first program of the National Socialist Party stated that “citizenship will be determined by origin“. Later, the National Socialist doctrine declared that “Jews are not citizens of the Reich and therefore have no right to vote“. The Wannsee Conference was a historical peak of German racism. In a luxurious villa, in conditions of absolute secrecy, fifteen participants - with high-ranking GESTAPO officials and top government experts in January 1942 - discussed ideas and detailed plans for a "final solution to the "Jewish question". In a few hours, ideas and views on the extermination of the entire European Jewish community were summarized there. After the mass extermination carried out by the Ottoman and Turkish authorities against the Armenian community, Hitlerism carried out a forced deportation and the largest-scale extermination of an ethno-religious group.
Over the past three decades, Bulgaria, as well as throughout Eastern Europe, has been waging a relentless, usually hypocritical war against constitutionalism. The successful efforts to discredit the rule of law are a disaster inspired by the cult of inequality. The over-concentration of wealth in a small number of hands destroys national unity. Fascist and semi-fascist states strive for unjust inequality.
For 35 years, someone has always been hindering the democratic principles of our 1991 Constitution, and they must be preserved.
Let's remember one more thing. In 1933, the left-wing parties in Germany, at that historical moment, were mired in internal struggles, while Hitler was striving for power. What happened next is well known.
Fascism in Bulgaria, Europe and the world has no right to be forgotten!