“Opposing the Party Nomenklatura Doesn’t Mean Being Anti-Communist”

Having read a number of materials mentioning The Day as an anti-Communist newspaper, I cannot agree with this statement. Indeed, The Day differs cardinally from the Communist Party’s outlets like Pravda in the past and Komunist at present. The major difference between them is that, while The Day can carry a material deviating from the “only correct” Communist Party’s Politburo viewpoint, the communist media publish only the “correct” opinions eulogizing the party nomenklatura’s actions. I read The Day from the day of its foundation and cannot recall any occasion when the newspaper attacked ordinary communists. On the contrary, most diverse materials of various political forces appear in its pages. It publishes the opinions of and articles by Petro Symonenko and statements by Heorhy Kriuchkov, which I always read with great pleasure. Simultaneously, the newspaper carries other opinions. For instance, I, an ordinary Communist from Arsenal Plant, have published over thirty articles in The Day in spite of the fact that sometimes I expressed views differing from not only the “only correct” Communist Party’s Politburo view but also the one of the court political waiters.

Thus, I would like to suggest through my newspaper to conduct a Communist Party Secretary versus Ordinary Arsenal Communist debates, in course of which I am prepared to discuss a broad range of questions from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the situation in Ukraine to political reform. I hope that The Day agrees to carry out this project, provided that the Communists’ leader gives his consent.

P.S. The Day is all for such discussion. Our Prof. Mace tells us that our Communist friends should know more about the idealism of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine in the 1920s. It is a legacy worth remembrance.