Dear comrades,

On February 6, 2020, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine adopted a resolution “On the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin". Here is the abstract of the theses on the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin "Lenin and Ukraine". You could find full text of the thesis in Russian here: https://www.kpu.ua/ru/95510/tezysy_k_150j_godovschyne_so_dnja_rozhdenyja_vylenyna_lenyn_y_ukrayna

Lenin in the fate of Ukraine

Lenin constantly studied the socio-economic and political situation in Ukraine and drew conclusions important for the liberation struggle of the working people. He maintained close ties with many public figures in the region.

Lenin at the end of the XIX century in the fundamental work "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" paid great attention to Ukraine. He made a scientific analysis of a complex national problem and the national liberation struggle in Ukraine. In the pre-October period, he resolutely defended the right of the Ukrainian people to self-determination, up to the creation of an independent state, to the free development of the native language and national culture.

The Great October Socialist Revolution is a turning point in the fate of the Ukrainian people, who for the first time became the master of their country, the real subject of the historical process. Workers' State - The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ensured the simultaneous solution of the tasks of socio-economic development and national revival, the creation of highly developed industry and mechanized agriculture, the flourishing of education, science and culture. The Ukrainian SSR was one of the top ten most developed countries in the world.

The inclusion of the Ukrainian SSR in the UN founding member states was convincing evidence of the recognition by the international community of its real statehood.

On the basis of Leninist ideological and organizational principles, the Communist Party of Ukraine was created in July 1918 as an integral part of the single All-Russian (All-Union) Communist Party. The Communist Party of Ukraine has come a long and glorious path.

Ukraine within existing borders - Lenin's legacy

Immediately after the February Revolution, some of the states that were part of the Russian Empire turned to the Provisional Government with a request to secede from Russia, in particular Poland, Finland, and Ukraine. The interim government refused to all.

The Leninist party of the Bolsheviks was the only political force in Russia that supported the Ukrainian national movement after the February Revolution. Without Lenin, it could have died out already in the summer of 1917. Without Lenin and the Bolsheviks, there would be no Ukrainian statehood, which was fully implemented in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was in the Soviet Union that Ukraine united all Ukrainian lands.

Without Lenin and the Bolshevik Party there would have been no Ukrainian state. It was on Lenin’s proposal that the party’s program laid the right of nations to self-determination, which, after the events of 1991, was the basis of Ukraine’s independence.

Lenin was the initiator of the industrialization of Soviet Ukraine. A powerful industry is also a Leninist legacy. Lenin attached greater importance to the development of modern large-scale industry: mechanical engineering, energy, the chemical industry, and other industries.

After the Leninist ideas of building a state were rejected, Ukraine found itself in the margins of civilization.

The relevance of the ideas of Leninism to the Communist Party of Ukraine, the present and future people of Ukraine

The historical achievements of the Soviet people are achieved through the fulfillment of the wills of V.I. Lenin, the creative development of his teachings. But in the second half of the 1980s, the class enemy managed to seriously damage the cause of socialism and the party itself. This allowed the anti-communist forces to destroy the Soviet Union by criminal means, liquidate Soviet power, plunder social wealth, launch a campaign to destroy the achievements of Soviet civilization, and restore capitalism.

The restoration of capitalism in Ukraine over the past 29 years has become:

- the elimination of the socialist basis — the destruction of public ownership of production methods, the collapse of collective farms and state farms, the social arrangement of villages on a collectivist basis;

- profound changes in the social-class structure of society, first of all, the emergence of a class of exploiters - capitalists and landlords, who have seized dominant positions in the economy, government structures, and the media;

- the destruction of the domestic economy, social sphere and the most advanced social protection system in the world;

- ecological catastrophe;

- the property and social stratification of society, the growing antagonistic contradiction between wage labor and capital, class opposition;

- degradation and extinction of the people;

- the dominance of bourgeois-nationalist ideology, the tendency towards fascization of the ruling regime, the bloating of anti-communist psychosis, Russophobia, violation of the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, falsification of the history of Ukraine, loss of its territorial integrity, cruel brother the disastrous war in the Donbass, the external governance of the country and its transformation into a colony of the USA and the EU.

In the context of the illegal ban of the Communist Party of Ukraine, despite the anti-communist psychosis, the Communists did not stop the struggle for upholding the rights of workers, for returning Ukraine to the socialist path of development. The flag of the Communist Party banned in 1991 was picked up by the Communist Party of Ukraine, created in June 1993 and registered in October 1993. As a result of the persistent struggle, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine as an act of historical justice recognized the unconstitutionality of the decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Council prohibiting the activities of the Communist Party.

A reflection of the systemic crisis of capitalism, the failure of liberal concepts, and the historical doom of a unipolar model of world development are evidence of the global financial and economic crisis of recent years, which hit the economy and well-being of working people in Ukraine.

Under these conditions, the world bourgeoisie seeks salvation by fanning the hysteria of anti-communism, and above all, by trying to discredit the genius of mankind V.I. Lenin.

The development of events in the world gives more and more evidence that, despite the temporary setbacks of the revolutionary movement, the content of the modern era is the transition from capitalism to socialism, only socialism can overcome the contradictions organically inherent in the capitalist world - exploitation of man by man, the wasteful nature of the capitalist production and consumption.

Today, in the conditions of capitalism restored in the country, in an atmosphere of brutal reaction and persecution of the Communists, as a result of the adopted law on decommunization, the strategic goals of the Communist Party of Ukraine continue to be:

- assertion of the power of the working people;

- building socialism - a society of social justice, in which the means of production are socialized, and man is the main goal and factor of social development, bearing in mind the prospect of building communism as “an association in which the free development of everyone is a condition for the free development of all”;

- preservation of statehood, territorial integrity and creative potential of the political society of Ukraine;

- the revival, in the light of new conditions, of the Union of fraternal peoples of the criminally destroyed Soviet Union.

Lenin’s doctrine is immortal, because it was not created to require personal ambition. It lined up in a system that gives the correct vector of movement into the future. Today this is confirmed by China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos and other states, at the helm of which are the Communists. It was these countries that were able to increase the pace of production even today, in the context of the global economic crisis. The fact that it was precisely the refusal to follow the Leninist course that threw Ukraine into the margins of civilization and the overthrow of the working man into the position of a beggar and an outcast is becoming ever more evident.

Lenin’s time has not passed. It is just beginning its refreshing run across countries and continents, it aims at struggle, makes it work and win. The ideas, deeds and personal qualities of Vladimir Ilyich remain at the center of a sharp ideological and political struggle.

The reactionary forces organize sabotage against monuments to Lenin and provocations regarding the historical and cultural heritage associated with his name, the activities of the Communist Party, the falsification of the socialist period of the development of the USSR and Soviet Ukraine, and the persecution of communists for dissent. Despite the terror and the persecution, the Communist Party of Ukraine continues the political struggle on the basis of its Anti-Crisis Program “From War to Peace”.

The Communist Party of Ukraine - the party of the people, the party of Lenin is convinced: the best monument to the founder of Bolshevism is thoughtful study, creative development and active propaganda of the Leninist legacy, its implementation.

The Communist Party of Ukraine will further develop cooperation with fraternal communist and workers parties, progressive anti-imperialist movements around the world, and advocates closer coordination and unity of action of communists and other left forces in the international arena.

The Communist Party of Ukraine is one of the units of the international communist and working-class movement, it bears the banner of internationalism, has fought, is fighting and will fight for the implementation of its program goals: "For the power of the working people, socialism, the Union of fraternal peoples."

 Since the time of Marx, Engels and Lenin, the motto of our party has remained:

“Workers of all countries, unite!”

as a condition for the victory of the working people in the future socialist revolution.

Communist Party of Ukraine

Central Committee