Following the complete fiasco of this social-democratic party that called itself the Communist Party of Russian Federation in the last December State Duma elections, the CPRF had lost more than half of their previous seats. The leadership of the CPRF could no longer deny that it was in deep trouble. The start of rival factions fighting amongst themselves (and who knows which Russian state organs were in the middle of this in-fighting), supporters of former Russian Duma Deputy Speaker Gennady Semigin blamed this CPRF’s failure on Gennady Zyuganov, who had led the CPRF to the last four defeats.

Neither faction had or has a firm Marxist ideology of building Socialism, the battle amongst these members of the CPRF resembled something like a street brawl, with personality insults and behind-the-scenes maneuvers to try and save this – Putin’s "favorite Communist party!"

Before the CPRF July Third Congress 2004, events rushed forward at tremendous and unfolding speed of intrigue as each section started to oust from its ranks their opponents and Semigin was also expelled from the leadership of the CPRF. He in turn, with his supporters held their own Congress.

Semigin’s party section and its Central Committee Plenum of 156 members removed Zyuganov as the leader of the party and replaced him with the Ivanovo Region Governor Vladimir Tikhonov.

Zyuganov’s section expelled all of those that were in the camp of Tikhonov. Both of these sections claimed to have had a quorum.

Now the legal battles begin, with Putin’s government looking on and urging the complete collapse of both sections, or supporting the one faction that will be in the pocket of his bourgeois regime.

For 11 years the CPRF has not accomplished anything in order to resurrect the USSR and Socialism, but did everything in its power to diffuse the revolutionary situation, prevent unity of all the Communist parties and movements, and to eliminate the fervor which the Soviet people showed during the revolutionary situation in 1993, in which Zyuganov of the CPRF played the quisling role of a traitor and eliminated the slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat from its program and maintained that the "days of revolutions has passed".

Neither of these two "CPRF Congresses" paid any attention to the many youth groups that demanded a revolutionary program or to the demands of the organized labor.

For 11 years Zyuganov and the CPRF leadership did everything possible to disunite all the progressive forces that based themselves on Marxism-Leninism! Zyuganov was the stooge on whom Putin and before that, Yeltsin and Gorbachev depended upon to sow discord, to prevent unity in the progressive ranks.

History has shown us many such "leaders" who went down into the history books as damned traitors, collaborationists and nationalists!

Even Northstar Compass cover, Vol. 7, #4, 1998 – had a cover which showed: "Zyuganov: a Trojan horse inside the Communist movement?"