This episode of Back in the USSR marks two heroic anniversaries: the 70th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe on May 9 1945 and the liberation of Saigon on April 30 1975 which finally saw the forces of the American Empire expelled from Vietnam. Both of these anniversaries mark a great victory for the working people and oppressed nations of the world in the face of imperialism, and unsurprisingly neither is officially celebrated anywhere in the modern West which prefers to back Nazis in Ukraine today rather than celebrate the defeat of Nazism seventy years ago. Millions of people gave their lives so that these victories could be won and I refuse to let their sacrifice be forgotten in this country. Long live the Red Army and the peoples of the Soviet Union who heroically resisted the fascist beast, finally driving it back to its lair in Berlin and killing it. Long live the Vietcong who resisted the American Empire to their last drop of blood and finally beat a superpower. Long live the international struggle against imperialism. The fight goes on until imperialism and class exploitation are erased from the face of the earth and liberation for working people and self-determination for all peoples of the world becomes the order of the day.
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