[News] When the USSR and China saved humanity: How they won the World Anti-Fascist War

Sat Dec 27 10:56:40 EST 2025

It was the Soviet Union and China that defeated fascism in WWII. Their 
heroic contribution was later erased by the West. In the First Cold War, 
the US recruited former Nazis.
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      It was the Soviet Union and China that defeated fascism in WWII.
      Their heroic contribution was later erased by the West. In the
      First Cold War, the US recruited former Nazis.

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Dec 27, 2025

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2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in World War 
Two. Unfortunately, the history of this extremely important conflict is 
not very well understood today.

It was not the United States and its Western allies that defeated 
fascism in WWII. That is a myth that is promoted by Hollywood movies.

In reality, it was the Soviet Union and China that defeated fascism in 
WWII. However, their heroic contribution was later erased by the West, 
when the US waged the First Cold War against the global socialist movement.

The vast majority — approximately 80% — of Nazi casualties were on the 
Eastern Front, in the Third Reich’s savage, scorched-earth battles 
against the Soviet Red Army.

More than 26 million Soviets died 
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the Nazi empire’s genocidal war. Compare that to the just over 400,000 
US Americans who died, and the roughly 450,000 Brits who lost their lives.

This means that 62 Soviets were killed for every US American who died in 
WWII. Yet, tragically, their sacrifice has been forgotten in the West – 
or, better said, erased from public consciousness for political reasons.

The fact that the USSR defeated Nazi Germany was even admitted by the 
inveterate anti-communist Winston Churchill, an explicit racist, 
colonialist, and erstwhile admirer of Hitler 
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oversaw the British empire’s extreme crimes, including a famine in 
Bengal in 1943 
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In a speech in August 1944, Churchill acknowledged:

    “I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that
    *it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the
    guts out of the German army
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    In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there
    was no force in the world which could have been called into being,
    except after several more years, that would have been able to maul
    and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the
    terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the
    strength of the Russian Soviet Armies”.

Then, in October 1944, Churchill said, “I have always believed and I 
still believe that it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the 
filthy Nazis”.

In fact, the USSR wanted to crush fascism even earlier by proposing a 
surprise attack on Nazi Germany in 1939, weeks before Hitler invaded 
Poland. Soviet military officers made an official request 
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British and French officials to form an alliance against Nazi Germany in 
August 1939, but London and Paris were not interested. The USSR had a 
million troops ready to fight, but the Western European powers were not 
prepared.

What the capitalist countries in Western Europe and North America had 
hoped for was that Nazi Germany would attack the Soviet Union, which 
they considered their main enemy. This is why the Western imperial 
powers had long appeased Hitler, signing shameful deals like the 1938 
Munich Agreement, which allowed the Nazi empire to expand in Europe.

What the Western capitalist “liberal democracies” and the fascist 
regimes shared in common was mutual hatred of communism. The rich 
oligarchs who controlled Western governments feared that they would lose 
their privileges if workers in their countries were inspired by the 
Bolshevik Revolution.

In the 1930s, the US State Department spoke positively of fascism 
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an alternative to communism, and the US chargé d'affaires in Germany 
praised the supposedly “more moderate section 
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the [Nazi] party, headed by Hitler himself ... which appeal[s] to all 
civilized and reasonable people”.

It must be emphasized that, when the Japanese empire officially allied 
with Nazi Germany in 1936, the name of the deal they signed was the 
Agreement Against the Communist International, or the Anti-Comintern 
Pact. Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime in Italy subsequently signed the 
agreement in 1937, and the fascist regimes in Spain, Hungary, and other 
European countries joined in the following years. It was extreme, 
violent anti-communism that united all of these fascist powers.

While there is widespread ignorance about the Soviet Union’s leading 
role in crushing Nazi Germany in WWII, the heroic contribution that the 
people of China made to the defeat of the Japanese empire is even less 
well known.

For Europe, WWII began in 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. For 
the people of China, the war started much earlier, in 1931, when the 
Japanese empire invaded the Manchuria region of northern China.

For 14 years, the people of China resisted Japan’s aggression, as the 
imperial regime sought to colonize more and more Chinese territory.

By the end of the war in 1945, roughly 20 million Chinese had lost their 
lives 
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This means that approximately 48 Chinese were killed for every US 
American who died in WWII.

In China, WWII is known as the Chinese People’s War of Resistance 
Against Japanese Aggression, and it was part of a larger conflict called 
the World Anti-Fascist War.

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China held an important event on 3 September 2025 commemorating the 80th 
anniversary of the defeat of fascism 
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It featured key leaders of countries that are today, once again, 
fighting against imperialism and fascism, including China’s President Xi 
Jinping, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the DPRK’s leader Kim 
Jong-un, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, and officials from other 
countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, including Cuba’s President 
Miguel Díaz-Canel and Nicaragua’s representative Laureano Ortega Murillo.

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The United States has long taken credit for the defeat of the fascist 
Japanese empire, but this erases the enormous, heroic, 14-year 
contribution made by the Chinese people.

Although it is true that the United States was briefly allied with the 
USSR and China during WWII, and it did provide significant military 
assistance through its 1941 Lend-Lease Act, Washington immediately 
terminated that partnership in 1945.

In fact, even before WWII officially ended, the United States had 
already started to recruit fascists to help them launch the Cold War. US 
intelligence agencies saved many Nazi war criminals in the infamous 
Operation Paperclip 
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Instead of facing justice, these genocidaires assisted Washington in its 
subsequent attacks on the Soviet Union and its communist allies in 
Eastern Europe.

Later, the CIA and NATO created Operation Gladio 
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in which they used fascist war criminals as foot soldiers of their new 
global imperialist war on socialism. The former top Nazi military 
officer Adolf Heusinger was appointed the chair of NATO’s military 
committee, and the ex Nazi Hans Speidel became commander of NATO’s land 
forces in Central Europe.

The United States even rehabilitated Nazi war criminal Reinhard Gehlen, 
who had directed Hitler’s military intelligence on the Eastern Front in 
WWII, and who later led the CIA-backed Gehlen Organization 
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help Washington wage its cold war against communists.

The United States did not defeat fascism; it rehabilitated and absorbed 
fascism into the capitalist empire that Washington built after WWII, 
centered in Wall Street and based on the dollar.

The contemporary German government published the results of a study in 
2016, called the Rosenberg project, which sifted through classified 
documents from 1950 to 1973. It found that, at the height of the Cold 
War, the government of capitalist West Germany, which was a member of 
NATO, was full of former Nazis.

In fact, 77% of senior officials in West Germany’s Justice Ministry had 
been Nazis 
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Ironically, there had been a lower percentage of Nazi Party members in 
the Justice Ministry in Berlin when the genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler 
himself was in charge of the Third Reich.

Similarly, in Japan after WWII, US occupation forces released Japanese 
war criminals from prison and used them to construct an imperial client 
regime. The CIA helped to create and fund 
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powerful Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has essentially governed 
Japan as a one-party state, with few exceptions, since 1955.

Notorious war criminal Nobusuke Kishi had overseen genocidal crimes 
against humanity against the Chinese people as an administrator of the 
Japanese empire’s puppet regime of Manchukuo, in Manchuria, during WWII. 
After the war ended, the United States strongly supported Kishi, who led 
the LDP, established the de facto one-party state, and became prime 
minister of the country.

Still today, the Kishi dynasty is one of the most powerful families in 
Japan. Kishi’s grandson Shinzo Abe also led the LDP and served as prime 
minister from 2012 and 2020, closely allying Japan with the United 
States, while antagonizing China and rewriting the history of WWII.

In short, after the Soviet Union and China led the fight to defeat 
fascism in WWII, the US empire recruited fascists to fight its global 
war against socialism.

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Today, it is extremely important to learn these facts and correct the 
historical record, because 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of 
WWII, and it is clear that the proper lessons have not been learned in 
the West.

The planet is still plagued by extreme imperial violence, and closer 
than ever to another world war.

The United States and Israel have been carrying out a genocide against 
the Palestinian people in Gaza 
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committing atrocities that are reminiscent of the fascists’ crimes 
against humanity in WWII.

Fascism has its roots in European colonialism 
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The genocidal tactics that the European empires used in Asia, Africa, 
and Latin America were later used by the fascists inside Europe.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was inspired by the genocidal crimes that the 
German empire had committed in southern Africa, and also by the genocide 
that the US colonialists had carried out against indigenous peoples in 
North America. The Nazis were also influenced by the US government’s 
racist laws 
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Black Americans, in its apartheid system known as Jim Crow.

Given the close links between fascism and Western imperialism, it is not 
surprising to see that, today, the US regime has become increasingly 
fascist. Politicians in Washington scapegoat immigrants and foreigners 
for the many domestic problems in their country, including the 
significant growth in inequality, poverty, and homelessness. They have 
no solutions other than more violence, racism, and war.

The increasing political desperation and instability in Washington is 
combining in a toxic mixture with the greed of US corporations in the 
military-industrial complex, which profit from war, and are thus 
incentivized to push for more conflict, not for peace.

The United States, as the leader of NATO, has already been waging a 
proxy war against Russia in Ukrainian territory, using the people of 
Ukraine as cannon fodder in an imperial war, tragically destroying an 
entire generation of Ukrainians in a vain attempt to maintain US global 
hegemony.

The US empire has also used its Israeli attack dog to wage war on the 
people of Iran, in an attempt to overthrow the revolutionary government 
in Tehran and impose a puppet regime, like the former king, the shah, 
who was propped up by Washington.

The number one target of the US empire today, however, is the People’s 
Republic of China. US imperialists fear that China is the only country 
powerful enough to not only challenge but to defeat Washington’s global 
hegemony.

The US empire is waging a Second Cold War against China, and it has 
weaponized everything in this hybrid war, imposing sanctions and tariffs 
to wage economic war, using its control over the dollar system in a 
financial war, and exploiting the media to spread disinformation and 
fake news as part of an information war.

Part of the US empire’s strategy in this information war is to erase the 
Chinese people’s major contribution to the defeat of fascism and 
imperialism in WWII.

This is why it is so crucial to defend the facts, and to teach the true 
history of WWII to people today. If we don’t correct the historical 
record, the fascists and imperialists of the 21st century will weaponize 
ignorance in order to carry out the same crimes that their ideological 
brethren committed in the 20th century.

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