Oleg Shenin, former CC CPSU member and the leader of the
reconstituted CPSU, announced his candidature to run against Putin in the 2008
presidential election in Russia.Oleg Shenin Is Now a Russian Presidential Candidate for 2008
Oleg Shenin, former CC CPSU member and the leader of the
reconstituted CPSU, announced his candidature to run against Putin in the 2008
presidential election in Russia.
During the counterrevolution in August of
1991, he was a member of the group of CPSU CC members who tried to regain control of the country in order to re-establish the Soviet Union: Most of them were jailed, including Oleg Shenin and former Chairman of the Union of Soviet Friendship Society, Gennady Yanayev, who was at that time the Vice President under Gorbachev.Oleg Shenin declared that his first priority is to establish the authority and formation of the CPSU and to then re-establish the Soviet Union and Socialism. He also criticized the present regime and some other parties and movements who are now putting spokes into the wheel of his election campaign. The situation in Russia is catastrophic. The Soviet Union must be reconstituted as it was
– the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – he concluded.Close this page to return.