From Newspaper
"Hammer & Sickle"
Krasnoyarsk
Last December (1999) there took place elections to the Russian Duma, a play of fools and also charlatans. As was planned, the "democrats" won. Otherwise how can you explain the "YES" vote at this time of untold misery and degradation of the bloc that was just set up 3 months before December election date, with no ideology, no program, the Bloc of Shoygun the minister who was behind the victory and an ardent supporter of Putin and, knowing that in will be coming Putin, since all of them were backed by the many millions of Berezovsky? Or, how can you explain this victory when even the official popular rating for Yeltsin was only 3%? Yet, for this bloc there voted 23% of all of the people - 12,000,000!! It is this Shoygun, the power behind the throne, with money to burn and foreign connections who supplied the arms to Yeltsin in August of 1991 and then in 1993 during the carnage at the Russian White House in Moscow.
The daily press and TV were promoting Shoygun and Putin 24 hours per day. Money in millions of rubles that were owed and not paid to workers, was immediately available and paid out before the elections. These were the moneys from Berezovsky... all this produced the results that Yeltsin-Putin-Shoygun and Berezovsky knew it would.
All the other candidates and blocs stated that this was one of the most filthy and dirty elections campaigns ever encountered in the last 10 years. They all agreed that there was over 8% of votes that were illegal and counterfeit. In this way, knowing that through legal means they would not get the votes necessary for Yeltsin-Putin or Berezovsky to get into the Duma at all, that is why the 8% of these "votes" made certain that these elements got into the Duma.
If we even utilize the data given by the Yeltsin regime, we come to the following conclusion. There took place in voting only 51.5% of the eligible voters - 54 million people. Boycotting the election were 52 million people... or 48.5% of eligible voters. Voting against all candidates was 3 million people or 3% of the voters. For the communist blocs that took part in the election and that did not pass the 5% barrier of votes, received 5 million votes only. For the social- democratic CPRF (Zyuganov) there voted 13 million people or 12.3% of registered voters.
If we look realistically at these figures, totaling all those that voted against the Yeltsin regime, we get a figure of 70% of the people of Russia. It was exactly the same figure that voted in 1991 for preservation of the USSR at this referendum. So, the proclamation by Yeltsin, Stepanshin, Putin that "there is no desire to return to the past" or "capitalism in Russia has defeated socialism is nothing but wishful thinking by these present traitors.
The Communist blocs vying for getting into the Duma did not get in - as was planned. In other words, the present regime would not let them get in even if they somehow won. This should be looked upon as a victory for communists, because there is no place in a bourgeois parliament for dedicated communists. This so-called "tribune of the people" is nothing but a sham, it serves the feeding trough for easy jobs and the government perks. The Russian Duma is no longer a tribune for voicing peoples concerns at all, it is a tribune to promote capitalism.
"The proletariat, - wrote Lenin, - cannot win, if it has not managed to get a majority of the population to its side, and just aiming for a majority or enough votes to get in a bourgeois parliament is just fooling and misleading the workers". (Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 40, page 14). It is just this position that the CPRF promotes to the people, thus helping the regime to buffet the rage of the working class against the bourgeois regime, meanwhile agreeing with the regime behind the peoples back. This is the essence of a social-democratic party, it just cannot be otherwise.
Then why is it that the present leaders of communist parties are in such a great hurry to get into the Duma, knowing full well that this will eventually dissolve their party and their leadership and thus make them part of the regime apparatus.
Why does not the AUCPB take part in the elections, even though we help other parties in promoting the attacks against the present regime and doing our own ideological explaining work among the working class? We explain to all communists, that no matter how strong their membership, their candidates shall never ever be effective in a capitalist apparatus... the bourgeoisie sooner or later shall make them ineffective or buy their allegiance. The policy of the bourgeois regime in Russia is based on vicious anti-communism... why would they tolerate any effective communist voice in the Duma?
We feel that the results of the December election to the Duma shall be a lesson to the communists or the social-democrats and that their heads shall be cleared of illusions and they will drop this parliamentarism as the only answer to getting rid of the regime that is supported by IMF, NATO, World Bank and internal reaction.
It is really a shame and a terrible waste of the millions of rubles that were wasted on that election. This money could have been better utilized to help all the strikes, hunger strikers, people on the point of starvation. The party blocs that did not meet the 5% barrier have lost all of their hard-earned deposits. According to the latest figures by the election body, this totaled well over 230 million rubles, over $10 million US dollars.
At this time the bourgeoisie was not able to dismiss a two-party state, as in USA, Britain. What helped the CPRF was that the bourgeoisie got frightened and also split amongst themselves re future spoils... they organized a third force of Primakov-Luzhkov. The CPRF has won as many seats as it had, by a very clever ploy of utilizing the slogans of Stalin and thus fooling the electorate, managed to receive about 24% of all the people thai did come to vote.
We hope that the December election results will convince these leaders to work together with us in a common front against our common enemy.
The planned and orchestrated resignation of Yeltsin on New Year's Day again presents us with another election on March 26th. It is of course evident that this campaign shall even be more vicious, crooked and manipulative than other elections. Will there be opposition candidate to Putin?
Putin is the candidate of the internal and external capitalist class.
If we analyze as how was it possible that Putin whom no one has heard of inside Russia before or even in the former USSR, all of a sudden is placed on the throne, then we must look much deeper into this slight-of-hand.
The changing of Prime Ministers, one after another is not just Yeltsin's deranged mind. This captain (Putin) in the KGB (which cannot in any way be looked upon as serving Socialism) through very secret discussions with our overseas "friend" shows that Primakov, Stepanshin were just steps for Putin to climb and be placed at the top to serve the master.
The AUCPB always stated that Boris Yeltsin would never, of his own free will, vacate the post of president, and we were proven very correct. Yeltsin was forced to retire in order to more quickly call a presidential election in March, instead of July, since this would be a much better scenario for success. The last teary remarks of Yeltsin: "words to my Russians", with tears in his eyes (according to the script) and then with a large staff he immediately flew to Israel and Palestine in order to solemnly pray in the Orthodox Church... and as Pushkin wrote in his plays... "I'm still the Czar! I'm the Czar!"
Of course the plan was very clever... have Boris Yeltsin leave early, that meant that all the dirt, robbery, the embezzlement of his "family" shall be forgiven, given amnesty by Putin and thus Yeltsin's family and his across the ocean backers would not have to explain the billions of dollars that just disappeared and the deals made behind the poor Russian people's backs!
What course shall Putin carry on now? Professionally trained by the revisionist KGB (Khrushchev-Gorbachev's variety), he was in German Democratic Republic for over 10 years and now he is even personally blessed by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was, together with Gorbachev, who was his mentor, involved in selling out the GDR to Germany and capitalism.
He will now give up all of our industries that we still posses, will sell off the Kurile Islands in the East to Japan, he will "liberate" the Caucasus and give them to foreign investments and thus make Russia "independent" from its troublesome territories.
Today the Mafiosi capital cannot in itself settle all the problems in the country. The country (according to NATO and the West) needs a Fuerher, a fascist dictatorship, in order to fight the coming storm of the working class, because of the terrible financial burdens, all of the closed industries, lack of health care and even the present private farmers who cannot sell their produce because of the US implemented foreign imports that are foisted on Russia.
Putin shall be a real dictator, governing very cleverly, underhanded, governing secretly and always at the beck and call of his across-the-ocean masters. He will fulfill all the plans of US imperialism, as thanks for his rise so quickly to the top.
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