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The controversial President of the European Commission is listed to open an exhibition to the father of Communism in Trier to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth there on 5th May. It includes unveiling a statue funded by the Chinese government to the man who gave birth to a destructive ideology that has caused mass murder and imprisonments around the globe. The plans have provoked outrage in Britain and across Europe especially in the former Communist controlled Eastern European countries where the far Left tyrannies murdered and imprisoned millions of people. EU critics have pointed out that the EU’s lack of democratic accountability and desire to centralise power in an unelected Commission has already been compared to the old Soviet Union by its former leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Last night, Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski, who as a seven-year-old boy fled to Britain with his family from the brutal Communist regime in Poland, demanded that Mr Juncker rejects the invitation and does not attend the commemorative events.

GETTY Jean Claude Juncker will unveil a statue of communist Karl Marx

I think it's in very poor taste Daniel Kawczynski

He said: “I think it's in very poor taste we have to remember that Marxism was all about ripping power and individual means away from people and giving to State. “Marxism led to the killing of millions around the world as it allowed a small band of fanatics to suppress the people we must learn the lessons from this and share with our children.” He pointed out that the threat of Communist was a present danger with Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell leading the Labour Party. Earlier this week Mr Corbyn made an open attack on the free press in the UK warning that “things will change” in a video he posted after questions were raised about his record as an alleged informer to Communist secret agents in the Czech Republic and East Germany.

Mr Corbyn has in the past openly supported the Communist regime in the Soviet Union, opposed sanctions against North Korea because it was an attack on Communism, and backed other anti-democratic Marxist regimes in Venezuala and Cuba. Mr Kawczynski said: “Even today Corbyn and McDonnell attend rallies where Marxist flags are flown and that too is inappropriate and shows a lack of care.” He said that the statue “would be equivalent to someone unveiling a statue of Mussolini or worse.”

GETTY Daniel Kawczynski demanded that Mr Juncker rejects the invitation

Marion Smith, Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, said: “The philosophy of Karl Marx, when applied, has created some of the greatest episodes of human suffering in all of history. “Marxist states like the Soviet Union and communist China are responsible for more than one hundred million deaths as a result of their insane quest to implement Marx's utopian ideas in practice.” He said: “It's telling that the statue in Trier is being donated by the People's Republic of China—the largest totalitarian state in the 21st century. “Right now, Beijing is building a digital surveillance state the likes of which even George Orwell could not imagine, conducting campaigns of outright cultural genocide in Tibet and Xinjiang, and implementing a 'social credit system' to rank its nearly one-billion citizens by their commitment to Marxist ideology.”

GETTY Jeremy Corbyn has in the past openly supported the Communist regime in the Soviet Union