Ukraine's problem is the world's problem

The way communism is destroying the foundations of law, the principles of the dignity of the human person, the inalienable rights of the family and the sense of nationality, shows how an accelerated historical process is exposed in the conflict in Ukraine.

The triumph of communism in the world is due to two reasons. First, communism has a spirit of dynamic realisation, it has set its world objectives and in the pursuit of its planned conquest it has adopted tactics and techniques appropriate to each particular case; moreover, a voluntarism imbued with a false mysticism leads it to a constant tension of activity and conquest. Second: Western countries, having for years endured the palliative of an amorphous and false liberalism of conviction, have undermined the virtual potentialities of men and have softened their will and character. Thus, faced with the dynamics of communism, they are in a permanent position of withdrawal and act with a lack of knowledge and it can be said that they do not know how to oppose communism, a confusion, because they do not know what they are defending and why they are defending it.

Communism is more than a political force. They have underestimated it, lulled to sleep by the old slogan that "communism is the fruit of man", and have believed that communism could not flourish where the people were well fed. Communism, however, is an intellectual heresy which, like all heresies, by taking some elements of truth for the constitution of its system, wraps itself in an atmosphere of sympathy and represents, for many who are deceived, a form of liberation, when in reality it is a state of slavery.

Faced with the gentrification of the intelligence and will of many intellectuals, it is necessary to react. And to do this, there is nothing better than a profound knowledge of the situation and the struggle of the countries dominated by communism, now also called 21st century socialism. This has a double advantage. On the one hand, it teaches the intelligence about those things that experience points out. On the other hand, it strengthens the will to see with what firm conviction and spirit of sacrifice the men of these countries continue to fight for freedom, a spirit that already transcends the borders of one nation to become the script that points the way for humanity.

Ukraine's problem is the world's problem. It has been a fundamental error of Western policy to consider that the aggressions of communism against this or that country represented only partial conflicts within the world. They forgot that the undeclared war waged by the former Soviet Union was not against this or that nation. It was a war of world conquest. It was a total war. Therefore, either the Western nations unite to fight the great battle, both in the order of ideas and in the order of arms, or, step by step, Russian policy will conquer the partial objectives that will lead to world domination.

It is therefore necessary to pursue a policy which will tend to strengthen the unity of the Western nations and to fight for freedom.

During the pontificate of Pius IX the so-called social Catholicism began in the Church to defend the rights of workers after the industrial revolution.

Catholics soon became aware of the politico-religious problems arising from the French Revolution, but very slowly, like the rest of society, they became aware of a second revolution of a different nature that was profoundly modifying traditional society, the so-called industrial revolution.

Since 1830 theorists and activists, such as Robert Owen (Chartists) in England and Saint-Simon, Fourier and Proudhon in France, had denounced the injustices of capitalism and liberalism, promoting workers' resistance. In 1847 Marx and Engels had drafted the "Communist Manifesto", the Magna Carta of scientific socialism.

Pius IX, concerned about the repercussions of liberalism in the political and doctrinal field, in the encyclical Quanta Cura (1864) condemned both socialism and economic liberalism, and thus made a first outline of the teachings of Leo XIII who denounced together, on the one hand, the pretension of 19th century socialism to substitute divine Providence for the State and, on the other hand, the materialistic character of economic liberalism which excludes the moral aspect of the relations between capital and labour.

Let us recall the words of Pius IX, when he stated that "this rapid spread of communist ideas, which infiltrate all countries, large and small, educated and less developed alike, so that no corner of the earth is free from them, can be explained by a truly diabolical propaganda such as the world has perhaps never known; propaganda directed from a single centre and skilfully adapted to the conditions of the various peoples; Propaganda which has at its disposal great financial means, gigantic organisations, international congresses, innumerable well-trained forces; propaganda which is carried on by means of leaflets and magazines, in the cinema and the theatre, on the radio, in the schools and even in the universities, and which penetrates little by little into all the media, even into the healthiest populations, without their being hardly aware of the poison which intoxicates their minds and hearts more and more".

Today, the desperate, centuries-old struggles of the peoples of Eastern Europe for their independence are no longer of purely local interest, but have become vital for the whole world, because Russian imperialist expansion, which has been growing steadily for several centuries, has been able to take over those territories which can be considered the strongholds of Western culture. This obvious fact has led the Western world to unite against Russian appetites for expansion and, for the first time, to realise that the Muscovite empire, since its foundation and without interruption, has always been ready to seize one village after another that came within its reach.

The Russian empire is far from being homogeneous, as Russians themselves and Russophile historians from the time of Peter the Great to Stalin and now Putin would have the world believe. In the so-called Russia, or more precisely in the Muscovite empire, the current satellite countries must also be counted as belonging to it.

Ukrainian Holocaust, (Holodomor) is the name given to the famine that devastated the territory of Ukraine, Kuban, Yellow Ukraine and other regions of the USSR in the context of Stalin's collectivisation of the land during the years 1932-1933, in which more than 12 million people reportedly died of starvation. Supporters of the genocide view believe that the famine was linked to the policy of Russification of Ukraine and also the suppression of the Ukrainian language by Russian.

The largest of these peoples is the Ukrainian people, which with its 45 million inhabitants possesses a territory with immense natural wealth, wants to continue its tradition of centuries past, when it was the outpost, spread Christianity and preserved Europe from Asian invasion.

The countries will one day also have to choose the camp from which they will take part in the decisive clash between two antagonistic worlds; freedom or slavery will make the choice easy for them. They will all stand side by side with the peoples fighting for the freedom of the individual and of the homeland. It is therefore of vital importance to get to the bottom of the transcendental problems which have been the cause of this struggle in Eastern Europe for centuries.

Ernesto Martinchuk, Argentinian journalist.