At the historic site of the Kaisariani Shooting Range, where 200 communists were executed by Nazi occupation forces on May Day 1944, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, delivered a political speech during a mass political-cultural event organized by the Party Organization of Attica on Saturday evening.
The event, held under the theme “Reading the history of the world through small names,” was marked by the recent publication of photographic documents from the execution—images that, as Koutsoumbas stressed, have deeply moved and shaken society.
Koutsoumbas underlined that the event itself was not simply an initiative of the Party, but a response to the dignity, courage, and pride with which the 200 communists walked to their death. Their example, he noted, spoke directly to the hearts of working people and youth, exposing the falsity of reactionary narratives.
“These images,” he emphasized, demolish the anti-historical theory of the “two extremes,” which equates communism with fascism—a narrative promoted, as he pointed out, by EU mechanisms, governments, bourgeois parties, and various ideological apparatuses.
Referring to a recent intervention by the KKE in the European Parliament, Koutsoumbas highlighted that when the Party raised the issue of these distortions of history—alongside the demand for German war reparations to Greece—the European Commission declared itself “incompetent” and even called for the withdrawal of the question.
At the same time, he stressed, these same institutions show no hesitation when it comes to equating the victims with their executioners, or the Nazi Wehrmacht with the liberating Red Army that raised the red flag over Berlin in 1945.
Koutsoumbas stressed out that the KKE honors the executed communists not with empty words, but by continuing the struggle they began. The heroes of Kaisariani, he noted, are not figures of the past, but part of an ongoing historical and class struggle, whose final vindication lies in the victory of the people.
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