BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Interesting article about the Lenin Sovkhoz, a collective farm that has survived into 2017: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0906/In-capitalist-Russia-a-socialist-garden-flourishes

More of a co-op, really. Their main crops are strawberries.

Pavel Grudinin, the director of Lenin Sovkhoz, has just been picked as the Communist Party's candidate for the 2018 elections, replacing Gennady Zyuganov who has been Communist leader since 1993.

Hi Pavel, communist strawberry man!

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Zyuganov was a useless pos, and hopefully they'll start doing something other than being also-rans.

lancemantis posted:

hahaha this woman had to be like 3 when the USSR collapsed


even better

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Interesting article about the Lenin Sovkhoz, a collective farm that has survived into 2017: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0906/In-capitalist-Russia-a-socialist-garden-flourishes

More of a co-op, really. Their main crops are strawberries.

Pavel Grudinin, the director of Lenin Sovkhoz, has just been picked as the Communist Party's candidate for the 2018 elections, replacing Gennady Zyuganov who has been Communist leader since 1993.

Hi Pavel, communist strawberry man!

Darkman Fanpage posted:

so only when the ussr collapsed and everything went to poo poo did her family move to the us? interesting

Aliquid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8je64jy5Nds

holy poo poo this loving dude

Darkman Fanpage posted:

conservative gamer

Darkman Fanpage posted:

https://twitter.com/theowlman_gamer/status/945666875266097153

hello vote stalin in this lovely conservative gamer's stupid poll

quote:

It may seem that October revolution 100 years anniversary may not be just a date: there was a big surprise this year: the nomination of Paul Grudinin as Russian Presidential candidate of the Communist Party and Pan-Left coalition.

>How did it happen?

Grudinin was primaried by the Left Front - the most prominent non-parliamentary Left wing radical organisation. It was busted past 2011 election protests in Moscow, and its leaders, Sergey Udaltsov in particular, was imprisoned for 5 years. As soon as he served his sentence (late August), he quickly sprung into action. Just now, Grudinin was formally nominated by the Communist Party of Russian Federation - a weak and impotent structure by itself, but with an administrative capacity second only to the government itself.

>Who is Grudinin?

He is a 50-something old man who lived and worked in Lenin collective farm in Moscow region. As the Soviet Union collapsed, and everything got pillaged by porky, he became the leader of a group aiming to preserve it for what it was: a working agricultural factory farm, rather than being broke down and sold.

It isn't a collective farm, though, but a Closed joint-stock company, but with a twist: as a result, its' worker receives countless benefits: 3-5 times higher salary, free apartments, an entirely different level of social security than the rest of Russia. A sort of hybrid form of enterprise that was established as they went, and a State within a state (that grew around two times in population since it was established).

Grudinin wasn't involved in politics, apart from several professional positions as successful agricultural industrialist, and generally expressing favour to the Soviet Union and dissatisfaction with the current affairs.

>What is his platform?

Social democracy, with particular appeal to China (which is viewed as what the Soviet Union should have done) and European social democracies. He does not have a definitive political programme yet, as it would be a compromise of parties and organisations that backed him up.

>What does it mean?

A huge step up for the Left-wing forces in Russia, and Left Front in particular, a powerful bid for power that wasn't seen in decades. Whether win or lose, the Left will assert a stronger position and organisation in Russian politics.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

https://twitter.com/theowlman_gamer/status/945666875266097153

hello vote stalin in this lovely conservative gamer's stupid poll

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Dreddout posted:

This dude looks disturbingly similar to my uncle

Darkman Fanpage posted:

stalin at 73%

Sloppy Milkshake posted:

lmao at hillary being lower than hitler

A Typical Goon posted:

“Putin isn’t fascist, Russia has a political opposition”

“Russia isn’t imperialist, they are just backing their historical ally, not taking advantage of a civil war to enhance their geopolitical position”

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

is his name joe?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

don't post itt

GalacticAcid posted:

Navalny is a fascist

A Typical Goon posted:

apologies for insulting your ‘leftist’ ideals by showing the fascist tendencies of your favourite authoritarian right wing state

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

navalny's base is lumpenproletariat

quote:

Of all people, it is quite ironic Navalny now leads a movement protesting corruption. This past February, Navalny was found guilty of embezzling $500,000 worth of timber from Russian state-owned timber company Kirovles while working as a volunteer. Prior to that, Navalny was convicted of defrauding $440,000 from a cosmetics company in 2014.

On top of his white-collar crime record, Navalny has supported various fascist tendencies during his rise to political prominence. In 2006, Navalny announced his support for the Russian March, which his own (former) party Yabloko condemned for its “fascist, Nazi, xenophobic manifestations”.

Navalny went on to endorse the “Stop feeding the Caucasus!” campaign opposing financial aid to poor regions comprised (mostly) by ethnic minorities. In 2011, Navalny even described himself as a “nationalist democrat”.

Furthermore, Navalny co-founded the Democratic Alternative movement using funds from the U.S. State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The NED is a slush fund used by the U.S. government to fund political organizations and “civil society” groups that will further U.S. imperialist interests.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

you're literally just trying to drag in drama from a gassed thread, gently caress off

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

fascists wouldn't tolerate any opposition.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/945789747460558848

A Typical Goon posted:

actually it was when discussing the definition of fascism in this thread. This was your argument for why Putin isn’t a fascist.


if your worldview has you defending a right wing dictatorship in so many threads you get confused perhaps it’s time to reevaluate identification as a leftist?

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i don't think navalny is a fascist though. there are varying degrees here. the most generous take on navalny is that he wants russia to be more like another european country. "the czech republic for the czechs" and a "russian republic for the russians."

Dreddout posted:

But Luke dies?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

But Russia is already a multi-ethnic & religiously plural federation. What happens to all the autonomous oblasts when Navalny makes a Russia for the Russians?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

General rule of thumb is that whoever the Western media lionizes as an anti-Putinist liberal hero would be even worse than Putin. Either because they have low key fascist sympathies, or they want to drag Russia back into the 90s, and Navalny does both.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

But Russia is already a multi-ethnic & religiously plural federation. What happens to all the autonomous oblasts when Navalny makes a Russia for the Russians?

General rule of thumb is that whoever the Western media lionizes as an anti-Putinist liberal hero would be even worse than Putin. Either because they have low key fascist sympathies, or they want to drag Russia back into the 90s, and Navalny does both.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Do you have any proof that Navalny is as bad as you’re making out to be? From what I can tell he’s just a milquetoast anti-Putin centrist who would likely be just as big a pawn of the oligarchs as Putin is. I mean I don’t give a poo poo about Russia regardless it’s all the same poo poo.