Divide et impera? Who is behind the new communists in Russia
Published: 23 May, 2009, 20:49
TAGS: Politics
Russia might soon have another major communists party. The leaders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are weighing who is interested in an alternative movement.
The leadership of the newly created all- Russia public organization, “Communists of Russia”, which has set an ambitious goal of becoming a political party, claim that they are drastically different from the established party – the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).
”The leadership of the CPRF turned this formerly influential party into an obedient servant of the Kremlin administration, which is allowed to criticize some ministers in doses,” said the organization statement. “The role of the CPRF in the current political system is to imitate opposition which criticizes the government and to accumulate left opposition voices.”
According to the leaders of the “Communists of Russia,” CPRF members of parliament are quite happy with the current state of things as well as the deputy privileges they have such as personal cars and state financing of those parties represented in parliament.
Leadership for the “Communists of Russia,” in turn, said that they have a “comprehensive position on how to protect workers’ rights” and to gather many left wing organization and movements with a goal to become a political party. They expressed their devotion to the ideas of scientific communism and building socialist and communist societies.
In his interview with Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta CPRF’s Sergey Obukhov, however, claimed that the creation of the Communists of Russia is orchestrated from the Kremlin, worried by rising ratings of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Still, one of CPRF’s leaders, Ivan Melnikov, later announced that the “initiative hardly comes from the Kremlin.” Instead, he pointed at the Just Russia Party, which is trying to play on the same field with communists.
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This article says very little about the new party and the people involved in it. After reading it, one comes away only slightly more informed. IE: they now know the party exists, when before they did not. This is how american journos misinform the public with uninformative, useless articles.
Zavismaja Gazeta seems the most ideologically-driven newspaper that tries to pour sh1t on Russia. In Slovakia we have only ´Nezavisimaje Gazety´ on every corner. Everyone criticize what is our own. The Neocon (SDKÚ) party here is in opposition thankfully. This means everything in government is bad and when somebody sues the mainstream for misinformation on their person, americans then come and speak on how ´democracy´ is limited lol. We have US-oriented media only. Our state TV isnt used by government to spin it for themselves, it however doesnt stand by our values and tells about ´good´ uncle... At least our Prime minister Fico, although I dont like him (and his party) managed to tell people through the MSM, that media write according to who fiinances them- not many know it if not for him. There are people who actually idealize him, some are brain-incapacitated in seeking and seeing him in red...The crisis is also the work of the social-democratic party in Slovakia, the Blue (Yes, the Blue revolution 1998-2006) party wanted to go like Baltic states went. Economy aside, culture after 1989 was neglected, there is no pro-Slovak media, nobody to tell people that their traditions, religiosity are worth more than ever. We have nothing but at the same time Hungarians are making propaganda like in Austro-Hungary Hungarisation. Its actually not 19th but 21st century...