200,000 march in Moscow for Zyuganov and Communists

[Charlotte Kates <ckates@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 21:12:47 -0500
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>**200,000 march in Moscow for Zyuganov and Communists**
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>(Reprinted from the May 18, 1996 issue of the People's
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>By Mike Davidow
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>It was the largest march in Moscow for several years. It was
>a real outpouring of the people on this victory day (May 8)
>celebrating the defeat of fascism. In keeping with their one
>candidate campaign, the TV and radio turned V-E Day into
>Yeltsin Day. And in the spirit of the "New Left" Yeltsin, he
>was shown bowing reverently before the Red Flag of Victory.
>But from his speech at Red Square one would never know this
>victory which saved the world from fascism was won under the
>leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or
>that it was the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics that the
>great Red Army and Soviet people defended.
>
>But history is the enemy of its distorters. It refuses to
>forget. And it is this revival of the peoples' memory that
>haunts Yeltsin. "USSR! USSR!" chanted this huge people's
>chorus. And immediately followed with the battle cry:
>"Zyuganov! Zyuganov!" The main TV channel limited itself to
>scanty shots of the march accompanied by a commentary on
>Zyuganov and the Communists.
>
>In this final lap of the presidential campaign, a
>"democratic" gang up on Zyuganov is the name of the game.
>Gregory Yavlinski, the "Democratic opposition" to Yeltsin,
>is now openly moving toward an "anti-communist coalition"
>with Yeltsin. The "Third Force" heralded by Yavlinski is
>evaporating and, as the arrogant Yeltsin predicted, the
>"democrats" have "no place to go but to me." Svyatislav
>Fyodorov, the champion of "people's capitalism" as "real
>socialism," has sharpened his attack on the Communists. In
>the second round, he threatens to back neither Yeltsin or
>Zyuganov. General Lebed is playing his cards close to his
>vest. But he, too, has had sharp words for the Communists.
>
>Thus the elections are taking a narrowing turn and the
>Yeltsin forces are intensifying their efforts to develop a
>"stop the Communists' campaign." The TV and radio warn that
>a Zyuganov victory would result in civil war. Zyuganov
>confronts not the limitations of bourgeois democracy but the
>tight fist of tsarist "democracy." The main weakness of the
>Left-Patriotic forces is that they have thus far failed to
>hit hard on the two main frauds of the "democrats:" that the
>"reform" is no reform at all but counterrevolution. And that
>while there has been a capitalist counterrevolution, it was
>accompanied by tsarist "democracy."
>
>Neither Yavlinski, Fyoderov nor Lebed can exercise tight
>control over their supporters. All are based on anti-Yeltsin
>sentiment. And Zyuganov can appeal over the heads of the
>three presidential candidates, if it becomes necessary, to
>their followers. Zyuganov has also repeatedly challenged
>Yeltsin to a public debate, which the latter rejects. There
>is the need for the Left-Patriotic bloc to broaden the issue
>from the narrow confines of a Communist-Yeltsin choice to
>what it really is: a choice between salvation or the utter
>collapse of Russia. This is a great patriotic struggle
>internally just as it was the Great Patriotic War externally
>51 years ago.
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