The KKE quite correctly criticises modern Russia for its anti-Soviet activities that pervade far beyond the case of Boris Kagarlitsky – including the demonisation of Lenin, the Bolshevik Movement – and even the eulogising of a pro-Nazi Russian – Ivan Ilyin! This is why some question is their really any difference between modern Ukraine and Russia? Trotskyism lurks in the shadows like the threatening paedophile of legend. Trotsky may be buried in Mexico – but he certainly keeps raising his head. We are left having to steer the ship of dialectics through the chopping waters of revisionism without springing a leak or being flooded by betrayal! Finally, the KKE is itself a member of a group of revisionist Communist Parties in the West that routinely plays-down the true import of Marxist-Leninism, the importance of Joseph Stalin, and the ongoing war against fascism. This is why the KKE (and its ilk) have never opposed Neo-Nazism in Ukraine or supported Russia’s military response to it. Simply referring to Russia’s actions as “Imperialist” is Trotskyite in origin and intent. It dialectically solves nothing.
