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Post by blindpig » Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:54 pm

Voices from Russia in Defense of Socialism

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Published on Oct 10, 2016

This video tells a story that has not been heard in the corporate media: Russian workers speaking out in defense of socialism.

Using the October 1993 shelling of the Supreme Soviet and the large death toll that has been hidden by the reports in the Western press as a taking off point, Workers World videographer Bill Dores chronicles the resurgence of the workers' movement in Russia that is challenging the privatization and rip-off of the socialist economic base by Western corporations.

Filled with interviews with workers and political activists, including wounded veterans of the Supreme Soviet siege, this video captures the voices of resistance explaining their struggle so it can be understood by a Western audience.

Particularly compelling are the interview with Victor Anpilov, leader of Workers Russia and the Russian Communist Workers Party, who was jailed by the government for his vital role as organizer in the October 1993 protests. He gives the workers' viewpoint on the events that is obscured in the bourgeois press.

Dores also covers the 1994 massive marches on May Day and the November Revolution Day that marked the revival of the workers' movement after the grim days of the October 1993 massacre. He concludes with an interview with Leningrad shipyard workers who ask jokingly if the U.S. will be ready to take their "democrats" after the workers regain their socialist system.

Filmed and narrated by Bill Dores
Edited by Sue Harris

A Workers World Video
Distributed by the Peoples Video Network



Ain't gonna see this on PBS....
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Echo of Aurora salvo: Russian Communists ask longtime leader to join presidential race
Published time: 8 Nov, 2017 10:31

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FILE PHOTO: Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov take part in a parade in Moscow, Russia, on May 1, 2015 © Dai Tianfang / Global Look Press

On the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution the Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov announced that all regional branches support his 2018 bid for the presidency. He added that this required confirmation from a party convention.

“We have a very serious attitude to the election and we will definitely participate in it. We have our program ready; it is called ‘Ten steps towards a decent life.’ This program can be implemented by a strong team and later we will name its members. But we will have a strong team: I am the leader of the movement, my candidacy has been put forward by all party organizations,” Zyuganov announced in his interview with Channel 1 television dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution.

However, he also said that the final decision of the Communist Party candidate for the 2018 presidential elections will be made at a specially convened party convention in December.

In comments to Izvestia daily, Deputy Head of the Communist Party’s Central Committee Yuri Afonin also said that it was premature to call Zyuganov a presidential hopeful because the decision needed the confirmation from the party convention.

Since 1993 Gennady Zyuganov has headed the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, official heir to the Communist Party which ruled the Soviet Union unopposed. In 1994 he ran for president against the incumbent Boris Yeltsin, and came second with 32 percent of the vote while Yeltsin garnered 35 percent, and eventually won in the run-off. Zyuganov also ran for the Russian presidency in 2000, 2008 and 2012. He came second every time, getting 29.3, 17.72 and 17.8 percent of the votes respectively.

The official start of the 2018 presidential campaign must take place in mid-December, after the Federation Council sets the exact date of the poll (it is expected to be March 18 – the anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia). So far, several Russian politicians, celebrities and media-savvy personalities have announced their intention to run. Among the most prominent are Liberal-Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky; Yabloko Party founder Grigory Yavlinsky; anti-corruption blogger-turned opposition politician Alexey Navalny (who is legally banned from participation because of an unserved suspended sentence) and socialite magazine editor Ksenia Sobchak.

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Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP): Life itself has proved the correctness of Marxism’s founders

Contribution by the Russian Communist Workers Party at the 19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties that took place in Leningrad (St Petersburg), 2-4 November 2017.
By Viktor Tyulkin.
1st-Secretary of Russian Communist Workers Party Central Committee.

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Dear comrades, let me greet all participants of the meeting!
27 years ago (in April 1990) I gave a speech at the conference of Leningrad CPSU organization that was to discuss the list of delegates to be sent to the XXVIII Congress of CPSU. Exactly then there took place the division between market oriented supporters of Gorbachev and orthodox communists. This division is still present in Russian Federation and manifests itself as the existence of two parties: CPRF and RCWP and the struggle between these two parties.

We are celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Great October, still we meet now the jubilee of October not on the rise of our movement but under the conditions of temporary defeat of the October Revolution’s cause in the land of October, i.e. in the state of retreat. That’s why the best way to celebrate the Great October’s jubilee would be to focus upon the tasks not resolved and to analyze our experience and the mistakes committed. Our party has prepared report entitled “100 years after the Great October Socialist Revolution, the lessons and tasks for the contemporary communists." We attach to this document great importance and believe it to be the second program of our party. In August this year, 100 years since the historical VI congress of Bolsheviks that had taken the course on armed uprising, there was held a conference of communist and workers parties that adhere to orthodox Marxism. At the conference there was adopted declaration entitled “October-100” that we offer for consideration (as well as for critics) to all the parties.
In the report of RCWP CC there is analyzed in detail the world-historical importance of the October revolution that was the first in the world that had successfully established the dictatorship of proletariat. It’s very important that the Great October Socialist Revolution was the first revolution that had been theoretically predicted by Marxism as natural and inevitable transition form capitalist social-economic formation to the more progressive communist one.
It’s known that a revolution requires the presence of subjective factor. Lenin developed the theory of proletarian party – the party of a new type and created the party of Bolsheviks. The main lesson (in a narrow sense) that Lenin gave to all proletarian parties is the fact that Bolsheviks were able mobilize working class and popular strata of Russia for the revolution not because they joined with all sorts of opposition, but first of all because they could defeat opportunistic trend of Mensheviks in workers’ movement both ideologically and organizationally.
We should specially stress that Bolsheviks never gave up the idea of the world revolution. In the report there was analyzed the experience and merits of Comintern that from the moment of its creation had provided communists with their own pole in workers’ movement, the pole that had been clearly defined both ideologically and organizationally. The Third, i.e. Communist International carried out huge theoretical work, in particular it predicted Fascism and gave it definition. (“Fascism in power is an open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of the financial capital, a special form of class domination of bourgeoisie...”). Though the issue of Comintern’s dissolution requires a special analysis, one thing is quite obvious: the main result of Comintern’s activities was the defeat of Fascism and creation of world Socialist system with the most powerful organizational nucleus as represented by USSR and by the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance countries.
Soviet Union saved the world civilization while having provided the decisive contribution to the defeat of German Nazism. What is especially important is the fact that this victory demonstrated the undisputed superiority of Socialism over Capitalism. On having promptly reconstructed the demolished national economy, USSR had turned into one of the most educated countries of the world with advanced science and culture. That’s why the priority of USSR in space research wasn’t accidental. The first person on Earth who went into space on board of Vostok space ship was Soviet pilot, communist Yuri Gagarin Soviet pilot, a former worker – a moulder-caster.
Soviet Union had a huge influence over the total world history course. The experience of Socialism, its’ social achievements both in USSR and other socialist countries forced capitalists to meet the demands of working people in their countries and introduce wider range of extended social guarantees.
The report pays special attention to the issue of power organization after the victory of socialist revolution. Essentially this is the main issue of the communist program. How one can organize the power of working people themselves and not of the people who only claim to represent them? We insist that the power should be organized as Soviet. The stability of Soviets and their best ability to perform the functions of proletarian dictatorship can be explained by the fact that the system of Soviets is based on objective reality that is characteristic for working people – i.e. on their organization that arises in the process of material production. The role of Soviets is very important already on the stage of struggle for power. No parliaments or center-left governments of “people’s trust” are likely to be transformed into Soviet power, neither would they adopt a Soviet Constitution nor lead people to Socialism. The way to Socialism goes through Soviets, through struggle.
The experience of USSR has persuasively and unequivocally proved that the economic basis for performing, strengthening and developing Soviet power as a form of proletarian dictatorship is the socialized property of means of production, preplanned directly social production that is aimed at providing complete well-being and free universal development of all members of society. This is the goal of socialist production. The rejection of this goal, the course towards market leads to the degradation and destruction of Socialism as market oriented commodity production fundamentally cannot be a basis of proletarian dictatorship. Any attempt to construct a socialist market oriented commodity economics will inevitably lead to the destruction of Socialism. Now we can say that it’s not only a scientifically predicted occurrence, but also a historical fact that unfortunately has been proved by experiment.
(The most important condition for development of Socialism is the movement towards non-commodity, directly social nature of production. Nowadays this issue has not only been an issue of interest, but it has also been the point of dissent among communists, including Russian communists. In our report we give a reply to our market oriented comrades, in particular those, who suggest that we should follow the “Chinese path”: you will all end up in Capitalism if you go along this road. What we see is essentially the dream of Gorbachev. i.e. to move to Capitalism under the Red Banner.
Of course, the economic successes of China are impressive and incite respect, still they don’t necessarily mean a success of socialist construction. Lenin used to say that such type of satisfaction man can experience under Capitalism as well. Now China is the second in the list of countries by the number of billionaires, whereas Russia is the third. It’s quite obvious that both countries are quite fare away from the construction of classless society, i.e. Communism. Meanwhile Chinese Capitalism has been actively playing reactionary role worldwide – it’s enough to recall the shooting of workers at Chinese oil drilling plants in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan and the struggle of Greek workers against the plans by Chinese companies to privatize the port of Piraeus. It’s difficult for us to say this but we see that Chinese comrades are likely to repeat the sad fate of CPSU.)

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For obvious reasons we paid special attention to the issue of tactics and necessity of utilizing the possibilities provided by bourgeois parliament to the development of class struggle. The approach by Lenin was illustrated by one of his most categorical expressions: “Only blackguards or fools can believe that proletariat should first conquer the majority in the course of elections that are carried out under the oppression of bourgeoisie, under the conditions of the hired slavery and only afterwards they should conquer the power. This is the utmost manifestation of stupidity or hypocrisy, this is the substitution of class struggle and revolution by elections under the old order, the old power”. Everything is decided in the course of extra parliamentary struggle.
In the report there is a special chapter dedicated to the reasons for the defeat of Socialism in USSR. Lenin used to say that “nobody can defeat us but for our own mistakes”. If we wanted to answer briefly why the Soviet power and CPSU were defeated whereas the majority of working people expressed indifference regarding the counterrevolutionary coup performed in 1991, we would say as follows: it’s because that by that time the power had not been Soviet and the party – communist any longer.
In the report we dwelled in detail upon the practical mistakes made by the party and the authorities starting with the main one – i.e. the rejection of the main issue in Marxism – i.e. the rejection of proletarian dictatorship. This was performed by the leaders of the party that went on calling itself communist. At the XXII Congress of CPSU there was adopted a new party program that excluded mentioning the necessity of proletarian dictatorship from its basic programmatic issues. Meanwhile the XXVIII Congress of CPSU adopted the program of transition to market, i.e. to Capitalism. Even the models of honest privatization as G.A. Zyganov told us were elaborated within CPSU CC. The struggle within CPSU in that period was also reflected in the report.
Life itself has proved the correctness of Marxism’s founders when they claimed that Communism is science and that it should be dealt with correspondingly.
The parties that adhered to orthodox, i.e. revolutionary Marxism joined together in Communist (i.e. the 3rd) International in XX Century. The tasks of communist parties, their responsibilities among which the most important was the responsibility to struggle for the revolutionary character of the parties, the struggle against opportunism were reflected in the 21 conditions of admission to Comintern. In the world there are still many parties who occupy the positions of revolutionary Marxism. Theoretical thought is still alive and Marxist-Leninist scientists go on with their studies.
As a separate topic we analyze the issue of whether we should aim for Socialism at all, in case Capitalism can provide a high level of prosperity? We, Soviet communists that lived and struggled in Soviet times when answering the question of “what was better under Socialism?”, point out that the main benefit of Socialism was not only the social security of people from the market or the absence of unemployment, or free of charge education, healthcare and accessible housing. We tell that the better relationship between people was that mattered most. Those relationships were much more honest, pure and fair. They were more human. This is worth struggling for!
Nowadays imperialists in many countries have been banning communist parties activities (eg. in Ukraine and in Baltic republics) and symbols, communists are not allowed to take part in elections etc. Anticommunist propaganda has been carried out everywhere with a various degree of frenzy. Still the main tool of anticommunism is not the bans, but the leading of the movement aside, its emasculation.
RCWP claims that today opportunism and revisionism have been transformed from natural biases of communist movement into a controlled weapon of bourgeoisie. The best known example of such transformation is the trend called Eurocommunism that is represented by the party of European Left. It’s clear that such parties pose no threat to bourgeoisie and are supported. These are our class enemies. Bourgeoisie has perfectly well learned to emasculate revolutionary ideas. The example of the recent Youth Festival in Sochi can illustrate this well. Dances and fun instead of anti-imperialist struggle is its essence.
Our program means the development of the struggle of working people themselves. One can achieve anything by struggle only, not by begging, whereas providing the scope of the struggle and the degree of its organization have reached a certain threshold, we can raise the issue of working people’s power – the Soviet power. We’ve been under severe pressure of reaction but we have to keep our stamina and fight in order to be able to timely bring the spark of revolutionary knowledge and revolutionary fire to the powder keg of people’s energy. Lenin used to say: “it doesn’t depend on us only if there is revolution or not, but we’ll perform our task and this effort will never perish”. Let’s check our thoughts and deeds against Lenin and the party of Bolsheviks.
Let’s not falter on our chosen way! There is no other way around.
Long live Marxism-Leninism, the teaching on revolutionary struggle of proletarians all over the world. Proletarians of all countries – unite!

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Post by blindpig » Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:50 pm

more cheer from Vlad & ElMurid on facebook

Vladimir Suchanshared El Myurid 's post .
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El Murid: "Putin does not really say it aloud simply because it's not quite his principle, he was expressed in his time by another person, but the essence is the same. If you are building fascism, then the corridor of decisions is one, nothing else and Russia is very fast on the way to building a fascist regime, this must be understood and not to be ignored, Fascism remains the last way to preserve the regime of power and administration, in which it is possible to continue the plunder of the country and the people by the ruling elite.In any other system of power she arranges Actually, fascism will eventually lead it to the same finale, but in that case it can be postponed for several years. "

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Kadyrov undertook a demarche, stating that it was time to change the head of Chechnya. From the Kremlin immediately came the answer that Kadyrov remains at his post and continues to fulfill his duties.

The statement is more like blackmail, and not particularly covered. Kadyrov perfectly understands that he is the only one who can symbolize and guarantee for Putin the resolve of the Chechen question, the arrival of any other person will instantly bring down the republic into chaos simply because it brings to the limit the Putin principle: "One country, one people, one Fuhrer ". Putin, however, does not speak it out loud simply because it is not quite his principle, he was expressed in his time by another person, but the essence is the same. If you build fascism, then the corridor of decisions is one, it is impossible to think of anything else. And Russia very quickly follows the path of building a fascist regime, this must be understood and not to be ignored. Fascism remains the last way to preserve the regime of power and government, at which it is possible to continue the plunder of the country and people by the ruling elite. In any other system of power, it is doomed. Actually, fascism will eventually lead to the same finale, but in that case it can be postponed for several years.

Chechnya, following the war, imposed a model that guarantees the stability of the territory only when a number of extremely stringent conditions are being met, which are necessary. The loss of at least one of them immediately destroys the entire model.

The main condition for stability - power in the territory is transferred to one clan, which is pumped up with resources to suppress all the rest. That is why Chechnya is flooded with huge funds, which, in the situation of a growing crisis, not even a crisis, but a full-scale catastrophe in the country causes understandable discontent among all the other recipients of budget flows, who have to cut back on their appetites. In this sense, Kadyrov has more and more enemies among the federal and regional elites with the growing crisis in the country, and this process is completely objective.

Inside Chechnya the same picture - the loyalty of their clan and the loyalty of the sheiks of other clans have to be paid for by impoverishing the rest of the population. Miracles do not happen, even such huge resources can not be distributed evenly in a minority dictatorship. Therefore, discontent and hostility in the Chechen environment in relation to Kadyrov personally and his clan is also a completely objective process. Reduce the irritation can be quite standard way - squashing marginal in relation to the current regime part of the most active population outside the republic. Part goes to crime and replenishes criminal ethnic gangs on the territory of Russia, a part takes up arms and leaves for terrorist groups outside the country - in the same Islamic state, in Jebraht al-Nusra and other jihadist groups.

"Terrorist Chechnya" is not numerous, but from the point of view of the stability of the regime it is most dangerous, since it is armed not only with rifles, but with a much more terrible weapon - the idea of ​​justice. Crime can be bought and negotiated, with ideological such numbers do not pass.

The Syrian "campaign" of Putin destroyed this relatively stable system, which guaranteed the same relative, but still stability in the region. Now the destitute and angry inhabitants of Chechnya have nowhere to go, and far from all are ready to go to crime - there is always a certain percentage of altruists who replenish the terrorist underground, unlike the egoists who become criminal infantry. In fact, Putin, solving the tasks of his monopolistic oligarchic environment, himself by his own actions destroys the existing balance in an extremely vulnerable North Caucasus region.

Naturally, even the current financing of Chechnya can no longer ensure the stability of the Kadyrov regime. He objectively must toughen, intensify repression, and ideologically even intercept part of the slogans of jihadists, and therefore Kadyrov is forced to raise the issue of even greater independence and even greater funding. After all, he did not start the war in Syria - why should he pay for it with increasing risks? Such a question looks absolutely justified, at least from the point of view of Kadyrov himself.

With the growth of elite hostility from the outside and the substantial situation in the interior of the republic, Kadyrov's staging of the question of trust in himself seems to be the only reasonable one. Or you revise the conditions under which it provides stability in the territory, or look for another. Judging by the speed of the reaction from the Kremlin, there is no alternative to Kadyrov and is not even considered. What, in fact, Kadyrov needs. And if so, be so kind, keep your wallet wider and close your eyes tightly.
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Some notes from El Murid:

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Yesterday, information began spreading about possible US measures against Russian thieves and corrupt officials in power. Naturally, while any such information has the nature of either leakage (for any purpose) or speculation, so it only makes sense to listen to it, but only.

In this information, interest is caused by a possible number of persons against whom personal sanctions can be imposed: 50,000 people. This is an unprecedented number, there has never been such a thing before.

There is a conditional and not entirely scientific concept of "111 thousand families" describing the Russian ruling nobility and its servile servants: a thousand families of high dignitaries (the highest federal authority, top managers of federal corporations), 10,000 first-tier families (regional level) and 100,000 families families of servants (the leadership of law enforcement agencies, judges, journalists, actors, employees of other creative and propagandistic professions, and so on). These families presumably concentrated in their hands up to 95 percent of the total national wealth and have 90-95 percent of all income in the country. The remaining 140 million are satisfied with the remaining scraps.

If the number of 50 thousand really becomes a reality, we will talk about the fact that the US will work with the main part of the Russian nomenclature, which controls most of Russia's national wealth. The phrase of Brzezinski: "You decide whose elite this is" becomes the guide to action. In fact, Brzezinski is absolutely right - if this elite voluntarily transferred itself to the West, then the West considers itself fully entitled to execute and pardon at its discretion.

Sanctions of this level will become untenable for the Russian leadership. The nobles need the protection and security of what it has been able to steal from the people over the years of the existence of a young democratic Russia. If Putin's regime is not in a position to do this, there is an objective need to replace it.

Technically, the regime can extend its existence for some time. He has for this two possibilities, more precisely, one, but with different directions: war. It can be the creation of an open fascist dictatorship and, hence, a war within the country with any discontent, and this can be any external war that will allow for a time to tighten domestic policy. Actually, any fascist state goes exactly along one of such paths. This is a completely objective and perfectly rational policy of self-defense. Another question is that both of these scenarios will require the exertion of all forces, the mobilization of events, that for the half-dead Putin's Russia, which is struggling to drag out existence in a peaceful regime, can become a complete catastrophe. Fascist Germany at least had an idea, picked up by the masses - on which it existed for 12 years. Putin has no idea and never will. The idea of ​​"Enriching" is aimed only at a very narrow circle of associates and does not include all the others - because the enrichment of his friends and associates is exactly at the expense of all the others.

The pick-up truck, which cleans tram passengers, only redistributes the already available ones in their own pocket. He does not make them richer, he steals them. Thirty years ago, a troop of pickpockets climbed into the tram named "Russia", and there is no other idea whatsoever, except to cut off the wallets of everyone, this landing can not and can not be.

In other words, the Putin regime will not save dictatorship in any form - it does not have any use for this complex instrument, and the rusty vertical can not stand the twisting of the nuts - it will start to pour.

The states have quite rationally assessed the current state of affairs, and if a decision on such unprecedented sanctions is taken, this means that, at a minimum, they expect a rapid shift in the situation in the direction they need.

Well, and how it will be in reality - we'll see in February-March. For the umpteenth time, in addition to moral satisfaction, the collapse of the Putin regime to the people of Russia and the future of the country will bring little: thieves and mafiosi can be replaced by outspoken traitors and collaborators. Both are worse, as they say. However, at the same time there is an opportunity at a transitional stage to take advantage of the chance that such a transition stage provides. But while he looks very hypothetical.

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In the Kremlin, it is believed that attempts by the US to adjust through sanctions the Russian business elite against President Vladimir Putin are linked to the impending presidential elections. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told journalists, answering the list of issues that the Kremlin received from an international news agency. Let's leave aside the question of how long a technician (and the press secretary in any hierarchy is treated solely as a technical person, such a voice of Sauron) becomes a "statesman". If, by the way, this is so, then the question is inevitable, as far as it is normal for stableers and postmennymi to form the basis of state policy. But that's not the point.

The essence of what is happening is very obvious. Putin's Russia went beyond the permissible from the West's point of view, and came out for quite objective reasons, at the system level. The Russian "elite" of the nineties was composed mainly of people from the Soviet party and economic nomenklatura, who converted power into property, transferring security issues to the West, which guaranteed her immunity in exchange for a significant decline in Russia's status. This nomenclature quite reasonably believed that organized crime was its rival and did everything possible to cut it off from power. Very revealing in this sense was the cancellation of the election of the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod in the spring of 98, when the "authoritative entrepreneur"

The West in this issue was fully in agreement, believing that the criminal, deprived of power levers, will be forced to proceed to relatively civilized methods of influence through the organization of managed lobbying structures. Someone, and the US experience of cleaning the management structures from the mafia is very solid, and what the threat of having a mafia in power, they know on their own skin. By the way, the fierce cleansing of oligarchs in Ukraine has the same goal - dividing power and business, the US expects controllability of political processes and removal of oligarchs from them, as an outrageous and uncontrollable factor. Classical neo-colonialism, whose management is based on two main mechanisms - the debt burden of "neocolony" and the creation of a comprador political elite.

Putin, as you can understand, was "hired for the kingdom" as a man from the security forces who can continue the policy of keeping organized crime away from political power. The main miscalculation of the "Family" was precisely this assumption. By the end of the 1990s the power structures were already permeated with their own organized crime groups and clans linked with "wards" criminal structures. It is enough to read the existing descriptions of Putin's activities and his team during the St. Petersburg period of their activity in order to understand how the splicing mechanism worked and what forms he took. Actually, this was happening all over the country.

Naturally, with the advent of Putin everything happened exactly the opposite - it was organized crime that became the basis for the formation of new power structures. "Family" and compradors of the 90s managed to beat off their "plot" in the financial industry, but the raw material was captured by crime. The pressure was so strong that the "Family" simply did not have time to repel the pirate raid on "Yukos", surrendering it to Putin almost without a fight.

Mafia, who came to power, of course, was not going to build capitalism - neither advanced modern, nor even cave archaic. The key market paradigm - competition - is absolutely unthinkable for the Mafia, and the classical monopolistic raw oligopoly began to form in full swing in the country.

Naturally, oligarchs are obliged to focus on their own and clan interests, which objectively contradicted the interests of external managers. Another question is that for this country's future and the people of Russia this hostility did not and can not have any positive meanings: the interests of both the mafia and the conditional West are deeply antagonistic not only to each other, but also to the interests of Russia.

Actually, further everything is quite simple. Peskov, speaking of the fact that the "business elite" is a supporter of Putin, as always, says untruth. The business elite is not homogeneous, and that part, whose genesis goes back to the "conquests" of the nineties, a priori hostile to Putin and his regime. As you might guess, it is mostly represented by financial capital, and by the way, to a large extent, the cleaning up of the banking system, which is now being conducted by the Central Bank, is precisely an element of the intra-elite struggle of the Putin mafia system with the "family" system - that is, the remnants of the former, Yeltsin's elite.

The criminal part of the elite, which broke through to the levers of government already in the zero years, is also heterogeneous, and US sanctions are precisely designed to crush it even more. The part that can survive outside the system built by Putin will be undressed, but most likely, limited to ransom - roughly the same thing is now doing Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. Putin's environment, which has no chance, if their patron will be removed from power, will be cleared to the very root.

The goal of the United States is to return Russia to the category of classical neocolonies, dividing power and business by building a managerial political vertical structure that is subordinate only to them. There are certain contradictions in the model of building such a neocolony between the globalist and imperial part of the elite of the United States, Europe and the West as a whole. They are trying to play the current Kremlin, but not very well, as for all their opponents the negative agenda - the demolition of the Putin regime - is a consensus.

That's why the "Trampnash" design arose, because only the non-systemic president of the United States is able to deepen these contradictions and give the Kremlin, if not a chance, at least a delay in time. It seems, however, that Trump's opportunities are overrated, and he has to make concessions on the basis of consensus issues for the American elite. Therefore, he had to sign a law, according to which the hunting season for Russian mafiosi should be opened in February 18. He simply does not have the resource to resist.

The binding of the elite pogrom to the elections of 18 years, probably, is, but most likely, the US proceeds from other considerations. The stability of the Putin regime is rapidly collapsing along with the economy and the social situation in the country. The year 18 should be the last relatively stable year, after which Russia enters a period of uncertainty and turbulence. It is logical that just by this moment the US wants to maximally unbalance that part of the Russian thief, which will become a liquidated social group. Its assets will be the booty of the winning part of the elite, and therefore the United States can count on the revolution not only relatively bloodlessly, but also at the expense of Russia itself. Let us recall Brzezinski's phrase: "The new world order under US hegemony is being created against Russia, at the expense of Russia and on the ruins of Russia"

Again - it is not and can not go about the interests of Russia and the people. Mafiosi and thieves are no better than compradors. The only rational thing that can be done in such conditions is to try to prepare for the inevitable in this case the period of transformation of the system, when it becomes as unstable as possible. When the transformation period is passed, something to do in terms of changing the situation will become more complicated and costly.

Naturally, the West will do everything possible to liquidate any organized counteraction system, and in this sense it fully and completely agrees with the Putin regime itself, which is engaged in the same. But the key goal remains the same - the demolition of the Putin regime through destabilization of the ruling mafia elite in Russia. How exactly this will be done is a matter of technology and practice. But the goal is unchanged.

And what is said there statesman Sands - it's the tenth thing. He simply voices what he should, and only.

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Post by blindpig » Thu Dec 14, 2017 4:22 pm

Zhirinovsky suggested that any call to overthrow the government
10:56 12/14/2017(updated: 10:58 12/14/2017 )

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MOSCOW, Dec 14 - RIA Novosti. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed to expand the concept of "terrorism" in Russian legislation, so that any calls to violently overthrow the government fall under him. According to the deputy, life imprisonment should be provided for such acts.

"We need to expand the notion of terrorism: in Ukraine, terror against the Russians has already killed 10,000, and they proceed from the fact that they spoke out against the" revolution of dignity "... Berezovsky once called for the seizure of power in our country, that is, so that any appeals for overthrowing the current authorities by illegal means fall, "Zhirinovsky said at a plenary meeting of the State Duma during the discussion of the bill on the life sentence for recruiting terrorists.
According to the politician, "any revolution connected with violence, participation of armed persons, groups, should fall under the articles of the Criminal Code and life imprisonment".
"I think that our committee must work and expand the interpretation of this article, adding that any justifications for terror in the past, any calls for any revolution ... The word" revolution "should be banned, not only can not be celebrated, but it must be criminal punishment, and, perhaps, a separate law, "the LDPR leader suggested.
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in this manner the thieves who rule Russia seek erase the past(and their crimes) and cement their future
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Re: Russia today

Post by blindpig » Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:38 pm

Perfect Storm
The Russian industry emerged from a two-month stagnation that went on and set off on a steep peak. In November, the total output of enterprises collapsed by 3.6%, Rosstat reported on Friday. The recorded result was a surprise for experts who expected production to return to zero after October's 0%, according to Bloomberg's consensus forecast, and 0.3%, according to a Interfax poll.

The November collapse was a record for the entire time of the crisis: ever since the fall of oil prices, factories and factories have not cut production so much.

The real situation, apparently, is even more unfortunate, as the next three months need to demonstrate strained cheerfulness and impressive successes.

The year 18 is likely to be stretched to the last reserves, but by the year 19 the situation of the "ideal storm" will begin, when the total negative effect will be significantly higher than the simple arithmetic sum of all the negative factors - a kind of negative synergy. The effect of the sanctions, the evisceration of thieves and oligarchs in the West, the clinically incompetent governance of the country, the mono-economy created by Putin, the wars in which Putin hired the country, the general economic crisis will go to the common treasury.

The 19-20 years will be the years of choosing a new path: either the regime will go into a blank defense and will begin to be urgently reformatted into a frankly fascist dictatorship, or some part of the elite will decide to fix its affairs at the expense of another part, and then we will have quite classical color revolutions under any slogans and flags. It is obvious that the first stage of any events will be extremely destructive and will be forced to close the current Putin project - most likely with Putin himself at the head. Although he can try and lead the process of dismantling his own system, that personally, of course, he will not save. But it will allow a little more to sit on the throne.

The funny thing is that today's verdict to Ulyukaev, if he really is made so harshly for trying to jump off, will only bring the system to a close: the higher nobility has received a sign that they will not let her out of the game. The West, in turn, presses ideologically close to him oligarchs from the "family" circle, practically pushing them to prepare for a riot (which is logical - it's not the West that will organize coups in their interests, it's necessary to work a bit). These factors, although more subjective, inevitably become part of the "ideal storm" that is gathering over Putin's Russia.

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I see El Murid is still his old cheery self. Three years ago we thought him a depressed pessimist, nowadays it looks like he was on to something....
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Re: Russia today

Post by blindpig » Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:58 pm

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According to the Russian News Agency TASS, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) nominated at Saturday’s congress the head of the Lenin State Farm, Pavel Grudinin, as the party’s presidential candidate in the 2018 election.

Grudinin's nomination, which had the support of the Party's General Secretary Gennady Zyuganov, was approved by 303 votes, while 11 (delegates) voted against.

From its side, the Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP) has nominated trade unionist, worker at the Kirovsky Zavod factory, Natalia Lisitsyna as its candidate for the presidential elections.

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Re: Russia today

Post by blindpig » Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:04 pm

Number of Russians who regret collapse of USSR hits 10-year high
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The number of Russians who regret the collapse of the Soviet Union has reached its highest level since 2009, with almost an equal share saying the event could have been avoided.
A public opinion poll conducted by the independent Levada Center in late November this year found that 58 percent of Russians now regret the collapse of the USSR. Twenty-five percent said they felt no regret about this, while 16 percent could not describe their feelings in one word.

When researchers asked those who regret the end of the USSR what the primary reasons were behind their sentiments, 54 percent said that they missed a single economic system, 36 percent said they had lost the feeling of belonging to a real superpower, 34 percent complained about the decrease of mutual trust among ordinary people, and 26 percent said that the collapse had destroyed the ties between friends and relatives.

The same research showed that 52 percent of Russians think that the collapse of the USSR could have been avoided, 29 percent said that the event was absolutely inevitable, and 19 percent did not have a fixed opinion on the matter.

The share of those who regret the demise of the Soviet Union has risen continuously over the past decade, but in 2009 it was even higher than today – at 60 percent. The all-time high – 75 percent – was recorded in 2000.

President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly addressed the issue of the collapse of the USSR in his speeches. In an address to the Russian parliament in 2005 he called the event the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century and a cause of major disruption for the Russian people. In September 2016, Putin said that the Communist Party should have transformed the Soviet Union into a democratic state rather than see it break into separate nations.

At the same time, Putin has always emphasized that he and other Russian officials have no plans to revive the USSR, and has expressed anger that people cannot accept this. He has also accused Western governments of deliberately confusing modern Russia with the USSR and harming the interests of ordinary people on the pretense of preventing an imaginary threat.

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Every year this story gets stronger, wonder why....
What a piece of shit Putin is, a traitor in 1991 and one today. Some gratuitous lip-service and "Suck it up!"

The Soviets will hang these dogs for what they have done.
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Post by blindpig » Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:20 pm

Russia's New Communist Candidate: Friend or Foe of Vladimir Putin?
December 25, 2017 - Fort Russ -
By Eduard Popov, translated by Jafe Arnold -

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Pavel Grudinin

On December 18th, the presidential election race kicked off in Russia. The date of elections, March 18th, was not chosen lightly, as it harkens back to the historic State Council meeting of 2014 when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Crimea and Sevastopol had been accepted into the Russian Federation.

Several days ago, it still seemed like the main intrigue of the elections would center around Putin’s running. As it turns out, Russia's communists are the ones with the surprise up their sleeves. For quite some time, discussions have been ongoing as to whether the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) should nominate a different candidate than its leader, Gennady Zyuganov, a genuine veteran of Russian politics and one of the founders of the party who has run in every election since 1996.

For some time now, the idea has been floated around that the director of the Lenin Sovkhoz (a form of collective farm founded in the Soviet era), Pavel Grudinin, should run on behalf of the communists. Nevertheless, until literally just the other day, it seemed like the CPRF would stick to tradition with its usual presidential candidate, Zyuganov.

But now a real sensation has captured headlines.

At a meeting of the CPRF’s Central Committee Presidium on December 21st-22nd and amidst heated discussions, the party’s leaders voted for several candidates. Deputy Central Committee Chairman for ideology, Dmitry Novikov, stated in an interview with Russian media that the presidium had discussed more than one candidate. Earlier, Zyuganov had proposed a list of more than two dozen people for party branches to decide who is suitable for nomination. According to Novikov, half of the list was discussed.

It has since been reported that Zyuganov led the vote by a huge margin, but ultimately refused to run in the elections. Thus, the victory went to Pavel Grudinin, for whom the majority of regional party organizations voted. According to Grudinin, the CPRF displayed a high level of inner-party democracy.

The Central Committee Presidium recommended Grudinin’s candidacy at the CPRF congress held on December 23rd, at which Zyuganov confirmed that the congress would support Grudinin in Russia’s presidential elections. Meanwhile, the leading organs of the party have been in close communication, with Zyuganov announcing that he will head Grudinin’s campaign headquarters.

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Grudinin (Left) and Zyuganov (Right)

Thus, the CPRF is going to the polls with a new face. This is significant insofar as the higher echelons of Russian politics are dominated by old-time veterans, and presidential elections usually feature the same longstanding candidates - Zhirinovsky from the LDPR, Zyuganov from the CPRF, Yavlinsky from Yabloko, etc. Now, however, there is a distinct tiredness of the old politicians and a demand for new faces.

Vladimir Putin has felt this surge as well. Hence why the nature of his announcement to run demonstrated an innovative approach. The autocratic LDPR, meanwhile, is once again running with its adroit and shocking Zhirinovsky.

Alas, the traditional Russian troika of presidential candidates - Putin, Zhirinovsky, and Zyuganov - has been shockingly broken with the replacement of the latter candidate. This carries definite risks, but also offers tangible benefits. Overall, I believe that the CPRF Presidium has made a strong and bold move. Russia’s communists have long been expected to work on rejuvenation and renewal, a process which they have now kicked off with a new presidential candidate who could, given competent work, easily take second place after Putin.

Now a little about the candidate. Pavel Grudinin is 57 years old and is, by education and professor, a farmer and engineer. Grudinin founded the Lenin Sovkhoz in the Moscow region which is now a thriving agricultural holding successfully operating on collectivist principles and boasting strong, social-oriented business. The CPRF presents this as a beautiful sample of the triumph of socialist economics in agriculture. Grudinin himself, meanwhile, can be called a patriot and statist.

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The Lenin Sovkhoz

In 2000, Grudinin represented Vladimir Putin's candidacy and, in his own testimony, supported the latter’s fight against the oligarchy. Most interesting of all, perhaps, is that Grudinin is not a member of the CPRF, and until 2011 he was a member of United Russia.

Pavel Grudinin’s personality evokes considerable interest and sympathy, but also gives rise to a number of questions. Judging by some of his statements, Grudinin is a man who has his own opinion; he is non-conformist and charismatic. In my opinion, some of his expressions can even be said to reveal inexperience and excessive radicalism. Nevertheless, Grudinin will not be an easy competitor for Vladimir Putin.

Russian politics is now dominated by demands to address socio-economic problems. Despite indisputable and sometimes striking successful military development - which indeed deserves Boris Johnson’s apt comparison to Sparta - Russia’s economic and social development leaves much to be desired. This fact has confronted Vladimir Putin, for whose presidential campaign socio-economic issues will be key.

Meanwhile, the only candidates with any chances of obtaining serious results are those who belong to what I call the “Crimean consensus,” or the camp of patriotic politicians who support President Putin and the results of the referendum in 2014 in Crimea and Sevastopol.

Russian society has demonstrated a high demand for development and social justice. But it has also demonstrated patriotism and nationalism not of an ethnic, but civic nature (which in Russia is called “statism” - gosudarstvennichestvo or derzhavnost). Some small percentage of voters will cast their ballots against patriotic values, but only the statist candidates will collect any noteworthy results.

The CPRF’s candidate, Pavel Grudinin, is totally capable of taking second place. The CPRF’s traditional electorate as well as new voters who do not personally take a liking to Zyuganov or the Communist Party will vote for Grudinin, as will many of my friends. In another situation, they would all vote for Vladimir Putin, who is seen as the leader of the nation, but the gross failures of the economic and social policies pursued by the liberal government of Dmitry Medevedev, with whom Putin is associated, have provoked growing, almost universal irritation.

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The best case scenario for these elections would, in our view, be the establishment of a government of public trust headed by President Putin with a cabinet of ministers including accountable professionals aiming for long-term development, not blindly coping Western liberal dogma.

The CPRF, without a doubt, could become a solid base for such cooperation, as its very program has long called for forming such a "government of popular trust." Hence why Pavel Grudinin is potentially not only a competitor, but a comrade of Vladimir Putin.



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Eduard Popov is a Rostov State University graduate with a PhD in history and philosophy. In 2008, he founded the Center for Ukrainian Studies of the Southern Federal University of Russia, and from 2009-2013, he was the founding head of the Black Sea-Caspian Center of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, an analytical institute of the Presidential Administration of Russia. In June 2014, Popov headed the establishment of the Representative Office of the Donetsk People's Republic in Rostov-on-Don and actively participated in humanitarian aid efforts in Donbass. In addition to being Fort Russ' guest analyst since June, 2016, Popov is currently the leading research fellow of the Institute of the Russian Abroad and the founding director of the Europe Center for Public Initiatives.

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Jafe Arnold is Special Editor of Fort Russ, Special Projects Director of the Center for Syncretic Studies, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Eurasianist Internet Archive. Holding a Bachelors in European Cultures from the University of Wroclaw (Poland), Arnold is currently undertaking his Masters in Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam.

http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/12/russia ... riend.html

Does anyone here remember that communists do not expect to take power through electoral means? A show of force would be useful, but this guy? The party couldn't do better than that? Perhaps not. Millions of communists in Russia are being ill-served, imho.

It must be remembered that 'Fort Russ', while very pro-Donbass also will publish nary a cross word about Putin, with all of the cognitive dissonance that implies. Blaming the deterioration of social amenities and the working class generally upon Dmitry Medevedev is a pretty lame fig leaf that few will believe.
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