Great Russia, and there are even more communists in it
On June 26, the 10th Congress of the “Communists of Russia” (KPKR) was held in Moscow. Without regrets and finally saying goodbye to Maxim Suraikin with the same enthusiasm, the KPKR welcomed the new president, Sergei Malinkovich. The “Communists of Russia”, including in what they considered only a spoiler for the party of Gennady Zyuganov, declare that they received a “historic chance” instead of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the Russian political arena, since, unlike it, they have already achieved “cleansing from Navalists and national traitors” .
“Communists of Russia” attended the congress in the metropolitan branch on the floor of the first residential building in Shchukino. The party, apparently, was waiting for provocations from its former path: a minibus with party symbols and a portrait of Joseph Stalin was on duty at the entrance, activists in the form of an obscure pattern, some with whips, walked around the closure of the territory. The room looked modest, but ideologically consistent: old stairs painted scarlet, window frames covered in mounting foam, a ceiling with hanging wires, Soviet-era furniture, pink-painted plaster walls. Repairs were made quickly, Sergei Malinkovich told delegates to political party leaders: “When we first entered the building, it was almost impossible to work here.”
In March, Mr. Malinkovich and his comrades-in-arms visited the elected congress, where the former leader and founder of the Communists of Russia, Maxim Suraykin, was stripped of his party card “for his connection with pro-Western financial and political circles and the bourgeois way of life.” Mr. Suraykin is accused of credit fraud, Mr. Malinkovich added that, according to his information, the management trust fund under Mr. Suraykin may be associated with oppositionists “engaged in anti-Russian activities abroad.” Mr. Suraykin himself said that the congress immediately called itself fake and was going to sue the new side, but then he resigned as vice speaker of the legislative assembly of the Ulyanovsk region and announced his intention to take part in special operations of the Russian military on the territory of Ukraine. A well-informed source of Kommersant explains that the figure of Mr. Suraykin ceased to disturb the curators of the faction in the internal political bloc of the presidential administration, since he did not always turn to their recommendations; Arose also to the state of the party’s financial affairs.
Sergei Malinkovich told Kommersant that several large departments took the side of the former leader, but “re-elections are already underway” there. A total of ten people were expelled from the party, he added, hinting at a minor split: “We have delegates here from almost all regions.” Among the delegates, the personality of Mr. Suraykin did not cause discussions: the hall met the words of emotions addressed to him with applause.
The delegates healed a wide red banner, from the corner of which a portrait of Joseph Stalin was hung. There was also a place for Che Guevara, in his eternal 39, indecently young against the background of the majority of delegates. From the voting booths, Karl Marx looked at like-minded people, and at the presidium table – a bust of Lenin. At the opening of the congress, the “Hymn of the Bolshevik Party” began to play – the text of Vasily Lebedev-Kumach was set to music by Alexander Alexandrov in 1938, and for a century and a half the song was used as an unofficial anthem of the CPSU (b) compiled with the “Internationale”. “Countries of unprecedented freedom of children, today we are proud that we can manage the biggest power in the world, about our biggest man,” sounded from the speakers. He didn’t sing, except for Mr. Malinkovich, but he didn’t articulate the chorus very clearly: “Lenin’s party, Stalin’s party – the Wise Bolshevik party!”
Sergey Malinkovich, 47, is a native of Leningrad, a former member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a deputy of the Altai Regional Legislative Assembly. On March 18 of this year, he became chairman of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia, and now he was elected chairman by secret ballot – this was the first time that delegates to the congress did this, and not a member of the presidium. During the voting, Marx fell off the wall, but he was quickly restored in the window opening.
The congress coincided with the day of the 78th birthday of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, but the date did not become an occasion for representative criticism of him. The “Bolsheviks” blamed him for the insufficient “cleansing” of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from “navalniks, foreign agents and national traitors.” Under such conditions, they made it clear, only the “Communists of Russia” considered the existence of a “patriotic communist party” with a “clear and precise position towards the normalization of events in the world.” In the unification congress party of influential “repetition of major negative objects.” Mr. Malinkovich explained to his comrades that the renewal of the Party had been brought about by “a very strong wind of patriotic spring changes.” In this regard, it is time to strive “from the internal atheism associated with the former attitude”, at the same time from “excessive attention to the person of the party leader.”
Mr. Mr. Malinkovich granted the site of the department: Chelyabinsk, for example, for the proposal “to revive the Extraordinary Commission, which would catch foreign agents,” and Rostov – for the fact that “it was possible to arrive on the side of the Communists of the Cossacks.” Finally, the leader gave the green light to the election of the branch to participate in the elections, at the same time announcing that he himself was nominated for governor of the Tambov region (the party also put forward a proposal in the Yaroslavl, Kaliningrad, Kirov districts and Karelia). KKKR intends to nominate 800 doctors to the municipal deputies of Moscow. Now the KPKR has 15 places in the training camps and about 300 in the municipal ones.
After the announcement of the results of the surveys, T-shirts, shirts, trousers, ties and bags dyed in the colors of the trade, together with the owners, gradually began to leave the meeting room. Along with the party color, military-patriotic paraphernalia was used with obvious success – from T-shirts of the Russian army to tie clips in the form of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Political consultant Yevgeny Minchenko visits the participants of the congress, he does not share it: in his opinion, the KKKR has worsened. “Maxim Suraikin was the most recognizable figure. But he overestimated his capabilities, and replaced it with a no-name, ”says the expert. KKKR, according to him, was especially in demand in the mid-2010s as a “comfortable spoiler” for the KPRF. Now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is quite systematically included in the Putin coalition, and this calls into question the relevance of the “Communists of Russia”.