What do you think of Stalin?

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]I was born in 1945 at the end of the war and I've always been grateful to comrade Stalin and the Red Army that I'm alive and my parents are alive because of the Soviet people who fought right way across Europe to get rid of fascism.

[00:00:25]And later on in my life uh when I proposed to my wife, we did that in the Ukraine in Kamianets-Podilskyi, where I gather some of my relations came from originally and we are both uh active communists in in the Marx Memorial Library, the Society for Cultural Relations and Soviet Studies uh and also in local politics and we brought our children up the same way.

[00:01:03]Uh what do you make of the protesters who are here today? They are supporting the fascist forces in Ukraine who during the Second World War, as we call it in Britain were killing the Jews and killing the Red Army and and killing the population of Ukraine.

[00:01:26]And these people have reared their heads again with the backing again of the Western powers, which is not unusual because they've always played this role of trying to defeat communism, socialism, any society that is run by the people. Let's not forget at the end of the Second World War the role that the British government played in Greece itself, where the communists who looked as if they might actually take uh democratic power in Greece, they had them killed.

[00:02:14]That was the British government. What do you make today of Britain supporting fascists in Ukraine and other countries?

[00:02:23]Well, if you look at the history prior to the Second World War, there was the war in Spain.

[00:02:33]And Britain played so-called neutral role, but it wasn't that neutral. They supported the fascists in Spain. They supported the fascists in Germany. They supported fascism prior to the war. They were forced into a position where because they made this diplomatic blunder of saying if Germany marched into Czechoslovakia, we would be at war with them. Uh it was naive because we could have been on the side of Germany and the Nazis.