EU Equates Communism with Fascism

The European Parliament has condemned communism as equivalent to Nazism.

Whilst capitalism fueled and supported fascism (as it continues to do), the Communist government of the Soviet Union defeated it, and had western capitalists agreed to an anti-Nazi alliance with the Soviets earlier on, catastrophic war might have been averted. 

If not for communist revolutions, we’d also probably have less rights; worker’s rights, women’s rights, etc; The Russian Revolution inspired oppressed people all around the world to seek liberation in the workplace, and from fascist, capitalist dictatorships and colonial rule.

Yes, it often led to a different kind of authoritarianism, but to equate communism with the fascism it defeated, is sickening; a grave insult to all who were tortured and killed doing so.

If anything, it is surely capitalism that should be equated with fascism, as the two often go hand in hand; it was that which helped give rise to the Nazis, and numerous fascist regimes around the world since (Pinochet, Saudi Arabia, etc etc). It is that which disempowers the masses and destroys lives and the land.

Meanwhile, communist Cuba, following liberation from a capitalist dictatorship, eradicates homelessness and illiteracy, provides world class healthcare (at home and abroad), supports liberation movements around the world, etc; all whilst being under covert and economic attack from capitalist USA.