Editorial:
CELEBRATING THE END OF NAZISM AND FASCISM (WORLD WAR II) SIXTY YEARS AGO TODAY
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By the time, Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces (on May 7 for the West, and May 9, 1945 for the Soviet Union), over fifty million people had died and twice as many wounded, or in some way hurt due to the direct consequence of military actions. The destruction of property, irreplaceable works of art, and historically significant structures was beyond quantification. All such destruction whether it was in pursuit of the sickening primitive ideologies as that of the Nazis and Fascists, or in defense of �civilization� by the Allied Forces (Britain, United States, Soviet Union, et cetera) the means used by each group was remarkably similar; in fact, one could say identical. It all boils down to one fact; both groups were Europeans and their descendants. Europeans and their descendants elsewhere seem to be the scourge of the human race. The World is in constant turmoil and is going down a destructive path; wherever we look, we find the Europeans and their descendants at the very center of all strives and conflicts in the world. They have now in their arsenal the most destructive weapons that could wipe out life on Earth several times over. It would probably happen in their hands, for the decision is not going to be made by peoples of the world, but by a tiny segment of the population of the world.

We, Ethiopians, have suffered the destruction of our nation and the death of millions of our Ethiopian brothers and sisters in the hands of the Italy�s Fascist regime for five horrible years. With our courage, and despite the sanction against us by Europeans, we single handedly won over the Italians a second time. [The revisionist history written by Westerners about Britain coming to Ethiopia�s rescue is a very bogus claim. The British were there as mercenary soldiers to help restore Emperor Haile Selassie to his Throne, which he had abandoned, not for the purpose of Ethiopia�s liberation or freedom. Through the great patriotic fight of five years launched by Ethiopians against the occupation forces of Italy and its Askaris, we already have won and liberated over ninety percent of Italian occupied areas in Ethiopia by the time the British showed up with Haile Selassie in 1941.] It took another twenty five years after the end of the Second World War for freedom to come to millions of our African brothers and sisters who were under the yoke of European colonialism under the British, the French, the Belgians, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, et cetera. Nevertheless, all the hypocrisy aside, we genuinely celebrate the death of Nazism and Fascism sixty years ago today. TH