Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast

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Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast
Коммунисты Петербурга и Ленинградской области
Colours  Red
Slogan«Socialism! Labor! Family! Fatherland!»
(Russian: «Социализм! Труд! Семья! Отечество!»)
AnthemThe Internationale
Party flag
Website
kplo.ru

The Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast (CPLO or CP;

St. Petersburg.[3]

The organization gained its main popularity thanks to various outrageous statements and provocative actions.[4] There is an opinion that the CPLO functions as a clownish organization, whose task is to provoke and discredit the communists by disseminating shocking statements on their behalf.[5] However, the representatives of CPLO themselves, in their interviews with the media, believe that this version of their activities is being disseminated by "bloggers hired by KPLO's political competitors."[6]

Since 2012, CPLO has been one of the founders of the political party Communists of Russia.

CPLO ideology

CPLO declares striving for partnership with the

anti-globalist, national-patriotic, left-wing radical, etc. 60% of members adhere to the ideology of creative Marxism–Leninism, Soviet patriotism and socialist internationalism."[9]

CPLO activities

The CPLO emerged during an acute crisis in the CPRF, a split into supporters of Gennady Zyuganov and Gennady Semigin, when Yelena Drapeko, Valentin Knysh, Gennady Gamza, Tatyana Astrakhankina, etc., left the Communist Party. At the time of the split and later, the "Communists of Petersburg" took a neutral position, speaking kindly about both Gennady Zyuganov and his opponents.[10]

KPLO became known in Russia and abroad in connection with numerous statements and actions, the style and forms of which turned out to be shocking for the traditional communist movement in Russia.[4] Thus, in January 2005, the Communists of Petersburg urged veterans and pensioners not to pay for public transport; from that moment on, all the initiatives of the KPLO began to be covered with more or less regularity by the media. Then, to win over the youth audience and, according to the leaders of the organization, to provoke public discussion, dozens of initiatives and actions were undertaken that had a great public response. Among them are the replacement of the plates of Belgradskaya Street with Milošević Street,[11] the destruction of the model of the US missile defense bases near the American consulate, and the picketing of the Constantine Palace during the G8 summit. Imitation or reconstruction of the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Republic on the territory of Estonia or Russian regions bordering on Estonia,[12] strict monitoring of the construction of the Ring Road in Saint Petersburg, making icons with the image of Joseph Stalin and calling for the canonization of Stalin, renaming the Podosye village of the Pskov Oblast into the Stalin village by gathering,[13] disruption of the celebration of the birthday of the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg Vadim Tyulpanov in the elite "Taleon Club"[14] etc.

Of particular interest and the most varied assessments of the public were aroused by the statements of the CPLO with the assessment of the released films, the colorization of Soviet films, as well as events in the world of sports and the statement of versions about the existence of alien intelligence. As the leaders of the CPLO have repeatedly stressed, the modern communist party "must be able to smile." According to the leaders of the CPLO, their organization wants to achieve a permanent presence of communists in the life of society, in all spheres of public interest.[15]

CPLO rarely conducts unauthorized actions, but its leaders were repeatedly detained during

rallies,[16][17] and the party's office was subjected to violent searches. CPLO has always strongly opposed joint actions with the banned NBP, the so-called orange forces, nationalists, etc.[18]

Participation in election campaigns

Despite their status as a public organization,[2] the Communists of Petersburg immediately began to actively participate in election campaigns, playing on the contradictions between the various flanks of the left movement. So, in the fall of 2003, in the first round of elections for the Governor of Saint Petersburg, the CP supported Alexey Timofeev, a deputy of the city parliament (Timofeev appeared on TV with the CP emblem in his hands), but Timofeev received about 1% of the votes and later the KP refused to cooperate with him.[19]

In the second round of the gubernatorial elections, the Communists of Petersburg announced their support for the former vice-governor in the government of

Vladimir Yakovlev, candidate Anna Markova, which was widely publicized by her headquarters.[20]

Markova received 23% of the vote, and therefore relations between the Matviyenko administration and the Communists of Petersburg remained tense for some time.

In the by-elections to the

CPRF candidate - 6%.[21]

The situation was changed by the introduction of elections by party lists. However, by this time the Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast (received Interregional status in 2006) were already a well-known organization and were simultaneously invited to several coalitions. At the elections to the

RTR TV channel. These speeches, in which the SEPR was presented by Malinkovich as an "electoral union of socialists and communists" and an extremely populist program (the speaker promised to cancel the rent if the bloc wins), according to CPLO's own statements, made the organization widely known to the city, and also significantly raised the SEPR rating from the level of statistical errors up to 1.5-2 percent.[23]

Then SEPR was removed from the elections by the decision of the Supreme Court of Russia. In these conditions, the CPLO announced the support of 2 candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the inner city districts - Alexander Olkhovsky (27th district) and Yuri Savin (46th district), who have long been associated with the CPLO. In other constituencies, the Communists of St. Petersburg proposed to voters to boycott the elections in protest against the cancellation of the registration of the SEPR. Both candidates used the support of the CPLO in their campaigning. Alexander Olkhovsky was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and became Chairman of the Industry Commission of the City Parliament and deputy head of the Communist Party faction. Olkhovsky subsequently repeatedly declared his sympathy for the KPLO, as an actively operating communist organization. Yuri Savin took second place in his constituency.[24] The CPLO officially congratulated the CPRF on the creation of a faction in the city parliament and demonstrated its loyalty to the CPRF, but the leader of the regional party organization V. Fedorov repeatedly criticized the CPLO unilaterally, which only aroused greater media interest in the Communists of Petersburg.[25]

In 2007, SEPR joined the

CPSU congresses, with the laying of flowers at the Field of Mars, and, in particular, in the media materials, more attention was paid to the coverage of the Congress than the demonstration of the Communist Party on November 7.[27]

ВIn March 2008, during the presidential elections, they called on to reject the system of presidential power and write on the bulletin "Power to the Soviets!" Then СPLO attributed to their agitation the fact that 21 thousand ballots in St. Petersburg and about 500 thousand ballots in the country were spoiled.

In 2004, 2005, 2009 СPLO has invariably sought the election of its leaders - Sergei Malinkovich, Viktor Perov, Yuri Savin and other deputies of the municipal councils of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.[28]

In 2009, CPLO candidates ran in local elections, both from the

A Just Russia party. All candidates from this party were supported by the CPLO in the elections of local councils of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast
in 2009. Previously, CPLO again turned to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with a proposal to form a single list, but was again refused by the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPRF.

At the same time, using the support of the CPLO, A Just Russia successfully took part in the elections of municipal councils in the Leningrad Region, having received almost the same number of mandates as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (56 versus 59).[29][30] Initially, half of the members of the leadership of the CPRF were and are members of the CP, since formally the CP is a public unification.

CPLO constantly calls on the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia to establish allied relations, publishes on its website materials of the CPRF and

Zyuganov's appeals, trying to demonstrate an equally positive attitude towards both left-wing parties and at the same time significant independence from them .[31]

Known members of CPLO

The founder and leader of the CPLO (Chairman of the Central Committee)

CPRF
Yuri Belov.

Having ceased to be a member of the CPRF in 2001, Malinkovich, unlike other opponents of

A Just Russia.[8][33] As a rule, it is Malinkovich who represents CPLO as a newsmaker. Most observers associate with the ideas of Malinkovich the resonant initiatives and actions of the CPLO. Since 2000, Malinkovich has been a permanent member of the Smolninskoye Municipal Okrug in Saint Petersburg
.

Governor of Kamchatka Oblast (considered the last "red governor"), joined CPLO in early 2008 after moving to St. Petersburg and quickly became one of the leaders of the organization. Like many CPLO members, Mashkovtsev is formally a member of the CPRF, but only nominally. He considers it necessary to have a complete union of CPLO with A Just Russia.[34][35]

Viktor Perov — is engaged in organizational work in CPLO, supervises the organization's cells in the Leningrad Region. Since 2000, he has been a deputy of the city council of one of the largest industrial monotowns in the Leningrad Oblast, Slantsyt. Repeatedly detained by law enforcement agencies for organizing protest actions [36]

Sergey Hovanisyan — Lieutenant Colonel, State Counselor of the Second Class, former member of the City Election Commission of St. Petersburg from the CPRF (until 2004), former member of the Bureau of the Civil Code of the CPRF. In the CPRF, he was considered one of the developers of the theory of state patriotism. In CPLO, he is responsible for ideological work. Assistant to the deputy of the CPRF faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Olkhovsky.[37]

Yuri Savin - lawyer, Deputy Head of the

Leningrad
. Expresses the position of those KPLO members who consider it necessary to subordinate CPLO to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

With a nominal number of 500 CPLO members, its asset is no more than 100 people, the average age of which really ranges from 30 to 50 years.[3]

Creation of the Communist Party Communists of Russia

On April 22, 2012, the III Congress of the "Communists of Russia" organization took place, at which a decision was made to transform it into a political party.[39] Sergei Malinkovich and a number of other leaders of the CPLO became members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia Party.[40]

June 7 of the same year, the political party Communists of Russia was officially registered by the Ministry of Justice.[41]

See also

External links

Examples of creativity

References

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