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Revolution and counterrevolution in Ukraine
Communist Party of Ukraine general secretary PETRO SYMONENKO talks to Star editor Ben Chacko about the countrys ongoing troubles
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ONE hundred years after the world’s first socialist revolution, communists in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine face harassment and state persecution that would have been all too familiar to Bolsheviks under the tsars.
Ukraine’s current regime has criminalised praise of the Soviet Union and characterises the events of 1917 and the seven subsequent decades of socialist government as a crime against their country. But Communist Party of Ukraine general secretary Petro Symonenko remains proud of the revolution and its achievements.
“There is no doubt that the Great October Socialist Revolution — its ideas, its achievements in reorganising the world on the principles of justice and equality, are as relevant now as ever.
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