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27.08.2010
Pro Karelia ry
STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF EUROPEAN UNION OF EXILED AND EXPELLED PEOPLE AT THE COMMEMORATION OF THE EUROPEAN DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR VICTIMS OF STALINISM AND NAZISM (23RD AUGUST 2010)
On the occasion of August 23, European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism due to the European Parliament Resolution of 2 April 2009 on the European conscience and totalitarianism, the Secretary-General of the European Union of Exiled and Expelled People sent to the Heads of State and Government of EU member states and to representatives of the higher institutions in Europe, the following message:
«On April last year, the European Parliament adopted the Declaration on European conscience and totalitarianism, delineating with sharp precision the foundations for a true, final unification of Europe as a sign of peace between peoples and nations of the continent.
By that measure, the European Parliament finally raised consciousness of grief and misery caused thereby to humanity by the two great dictatorships of the twentieth century, National Socialism and Communism, both the highest expression of the fundamental and human rights violations that affect millions of innocent persons before, during and especially after the fratricide Second World War.
Victims of the Holocaust and all those who perished in Nazi and Communist persecutions everywhere in the continent, must be added to the about twenty million Europeans who were forced into exile or expelled from their lands and who generated the largest wave of migration from the late Roman age, and to those ethnic groups remained isolated and deprived of their fundamental rights outside their national borders, victims themselves of brutal denationalization and assimilation programs.
More than sixty years after the war and more than twenty years after the final dissolution of Communist totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, relations between some EU Member States involved or interested in the displacement of population remain still difficult and anachronistically delicate.
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