From Newspaper
"Voice of a Communist"
Moscow
For over 5 weeks under the
complete pressure of the President and his servants in the Duma brought about
the desired results. In the secret voting when Kirienko was nominated by
Yeltsin, 251 deputies voted for him - this included also many members of the
Communist Party of Russian Federation.
Why did these Deputies vote like that? The propaganda in the regime-controlled media went all out to praise Kirienko to high heavens and to tell the Russian people that it is an obligation of the Duma to vote with the Government (Yeltsin) and that Yeltsin's regime is not going against the Constitution. Besides all this, Yeltsin and his cohorts stated that there are no finances to hold another election and that spending all these finances shall make the people even poorer and create more hardships.
The clincher was the following, which unfortunately even the CPRF swallowed; "The country cannot exist without the Duma".
The CPRF now has now 165 Deputies - 10 CPRF deputies did not even show up. 95 CPRF deputies did not bother to vote, while only 10 CPRF deputies voted against Kirienko.
Zyuganov during this "charade" spoke in the Duma, and although he spoke against Kirienko, his speech was strong only when he said: "we must cooperate, we must agree - we must not allow protests in the streets - we must have control - we can improve the present regime by a dialogue, etc. etc." He wound up with his favorite thesis - "Russia has had enough of revolutions!" But during those days and growing ever louder is the saying: "Russia has had enough of evolution - we need a revolution!":
The authority of the CPRF has fallen. Unfortunately the pessimistic prognosis by our newspaper previously proved to be correct. "Up to this time in all of the analogous situations there was always a certain scenario. At first the declarations (CPRF) always contained revolutionary rhetoric. Then there started to take place secret and official meetings and discussions, at which this compromise was arrived at. (By this we mean the compromise candidate of Primakov). Then after this the voting went as planned. This meant that Kirienko received the number of votes that were planned at his second nomination. Without the number of Communist votes neither Kirienko (2nd round) nor Primakov would ever have been elected.
What then is the future of the CPRF in the Duma? In the last few years there transpired a split - a left-wing inside the CPRF was established and if this continues then the Russian Communist Party-CPSU will be on the same side of the barricades.
Alexei Prigarin
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