On February 9, at the plenary session of the State Duma, Dmitry Novikov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, spoke on behalf of the Communist Party faction.
Our parliamentary week began on February 5 with an exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the revival and activities of the Communist Party.
We thank everyone who participated in the opening of the exposition together with G.A. Zyuganov – V.A. Volodina, V.A. Vasilyeva, L.E. Slutsky, S.M. Mironova, S.V. Avksentiev.
The exhibition spurred discussions about modern history. Recall that by the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union was on the verge of a new round in development. There were opportunities for this. The foundation was created by the labor and exploits of previous generations. The Soviet people yearned for new achievements and willingly accepted the idea of acceleration.
The space flight of the Buran spacecraft has become a symbol of new opportunities and prospects. Like Buran, the entire Soviet Union was capable of conquering new heights. The country of Lenin and Stalin had everything necessary for this. It was up to the worthy students. But others came. And chained “Buran” to the ground. And he became a different symbol – an unprecedented historical betrayal.
In February 1986, at the XXVII Congress of the CPSU, the achievements of socialism of the 70-80s, which the world admired, Gorbachev declared manifestations of “inertia, stagnation and conservatism.”
The course of further events is known. In a short time, “improvement of social relations” turned into a rollback to the wild market. “Renewal of political and ideological institutions” turned into their destruction. The “deepening of socialist democracy” resulted in an unprecedented “scam of the dashing 90s.” Gorbachev deceived the people and the party, substituted “route maps”, sent the USSR ship to the reefs.
In June 1988, the Secretary General, with his verbiage, imposed on the delegates of the XIX All-Union Party Conference resolutions: “On the fight against bureaucracy”, “On interethnic relations”, “On publicity”, “On legal reform”, “On the democratization of Soviet society and the reform of the political system”.
Almost immediately, the talk about “strengthening interethnic relations” turned into problems in Alma-Ata, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan, Sumgait, Tbilisi, Ferghana, Baku and the Baltic states. The “fight against bureaucracy” resulted in purges of honest and competent leaders. Glasnost unfolded as an information blockade of patriotic forces and propaganda of the vices of the Western way of life. “Legal reform” – rampant crime and lack of rights of citizens. “Democratization” – the ban on the CPSU and the persecution of the Communists.
And here a fundamental question arises – about the party and about the traitors.
The day before yesterday, there were words here that in the Soviet system, Gennady Zyuganov could not raise his voice in defense of his ideals – he would be immediately rubbed into powder. There is some truth in this, although not all of it. Gorbachev, who talked about democracy, knew how to deal with people – this is true. But did Zyuganov and his like-minded people keep silent when they saw his vindictiveness? Was the Communist Party of the RSFSR established on June 19, 1990 for fun, and not for the purpose of combating the lines of both Yeltsin and Gorbachev? Didn’t specific people do it? Is it together with I.K. Polozkov did not work for G.A. Zyuganov – secretary for ideology, V.I. Kashin – Secretary for Social and Economic Policy, V.A. Kuptsov, V.V. Chikin and other members of the Politburo. These people were not silent – they acted.
Did the referendum on the preservation of the USSR on March 17, 1991, take place without the participation of these people? Didn’t the communists get the support of the citizens who said “YES” to the Union in defiance of the hysterical demagogy of the pseudo-democrats and the “popular fronts”.
I show you a collection of works by G.A. Zyuganov under the title “In the service of the people”. The same collection was published by the State Duma. The book contains not journalism, but documents of the era.
July 23, 1991 the newspaper “Soviet Russia” publishes the famous “Word to the people.” Among the signatories is Gennady Zyuganov. There is a call to unite, “to stop the chain reaction of the disastrous disintegration of the state, the economy, the individual; to contribute to the strengthening of Soviet power …; to prevent the raging fire of interethnic strife and civil war. Yes, and Zyuganov’s earlier article “The Architect at the Ruins” was addressed to Alexander Yakovlev, but hit right at Mikhail Gorbachev.
No, not everyone was silent. Like not everyone heard the call to salvation.
When the Soviet Union was vilely cut to the quick, millions of people were ready to resist. But the core force was prudently eliminated. The CPSU and the Communist Party of the RSFSR at that moment were already banned.
Who needed it? Those who understood well that even trampled down by their own leaders, humiliated, slandered, the Communist Party remained capable of fighting, defending the truth, expressing the will of the working people… legs to become oligarchs.
The party stood as a wall in the way of those who dreamed of destroying the Soviet Union. Therefore, they destroyed the party itself. And then they just banned it. Contrary to the Constitution. And the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation itself later recognized this illegality.
And who defendedal honor of the Communists in the Constitutional Court? Random people? No, it was done by representatives of the party, its leadership. And the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU I.I. Melnikov is one of those who appealed to the Constitutional Court, demanding that Yeltsin’s decrees be recognized as illegal.
The meanness of traitors does not cancel the feat of heroes. The betrayal of the Vlasovites does not allow anyone to call the entire Soviet people, who defeated fascism, treacherous.
The betrayal of the Gorbachevs and Yeltsins does not give anyone the right to blame the communists for the destruction of the Soviet Union – those who alone could save the USSR. Those who did everything possible for this.
Did the Vlasovites themselves call themselves Jews? No, they declared themselves patriots who stood up to fight Judeo-Bolshevism. But don’t we call them nits and traitors?
If Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Burbulis betrayed their party, then not the party, but call them traitors who destroyed the USSR.
There is no need to change concepts. Especially parliamentarians, politicians, statesmen. Gorbachev has already changed concepts. It cost us all dearly. And today it will cost a lot. And it will always be expensive. Such is the law—such is the logic of history.
The Communists in court proved these apparently obvious things – we have the right to beliefs and to our party. The recreated Communist Party of the Russian Federation carried the ideals of socialism in the days when the Victory Parades on May 9 were not held, when calls for reprisals were heard for a kind word addressed to Lenin and Stalin, when howling and clattering were heard in response to a sound assessment of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Only people who were convinced of the rightness of their cause, true to ideals, rooted in the working people, could resist this.
And when we remember the shooting of Oles Buzina by Bandera in Kiev, let’s not forget how in the center of Moscow on November 1, 1994, a State Duma deputy, a well-known jurist, professor, communist Valentin Martemyanov was severely beaten and died. The perpetrators have not been found and punished …
The reconstituted party fought. She opposed the oligarchic coven of the seven bankers. She insisted on the restoration of the Union State. Denounced the Belovezhskaya collusion. She called crimes crimes. Initiated the impeachment of Yeltsin.
Yes, the governors of the “red belt” elected by our efforts worked in the most severe conditions and far from managed to do everything. But didn’t they save the country with their creative line?
Doesn’t the same apply to the Primakov-Maslyukov Government?
All those whom the Communist Party nominated as candidates for the presidency of Russia – Gennady Zyuganov, Nikolai Kharitonov, Pavel Grudinin – came up with a program of creation.
During the years of work in the parliament, important high-profile decisions have been made. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation achieved an amnesty for members of the State Emergency Committee and participants in the events of October 1993.
We are not ashamed in front of the voters. The Party has always been on the side of the worker and peasant, the teacher and the doctor, the engineer, the scientist and the military man, the elderly and the young, and has defended motherhood and childhood.
We actively supported science and education. Zhores Alferov was proud of his work in the communist faction. It looks like there’s still a lot to be done here. Yesterday the president stressed the importance of scientific and technological development, and meanwhile the Moscow region is busy abolishing science cities. Remember, gentlemen! Stop doing this! This is not your authority at all!
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation entered into political fights, protesting against privatization, the purchase and sale of land, entry into the WTO, the withdrawal of benefits through monetization, the introduction of pension reform, and the creation of NATO bases in Russia. We fought against Serdyukovism in the Army and with Sigutkin’s attempts to deface the Victory Banner.
We have supported and will continue to support the Donbass politically and practically. including humanitarian aid. The party is preparing another humanitarian convoy, and there have already been more than a hundred of them. We do this out of a sense of compassion, out of an understanding of justice, out of an ideological rejection of Nazism. The Communists have always been his hardest opponents.
On February 13–14, 1993, the Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation defined the face of the revived party: “It should be a party of courageous, honest and capable people who think nationally and act stately … This should be a party of action, greedy for deeds, and not for property and endless talking … It must be the party of the intellect…”. All these 30 years, the party has strived to meet these lofty benchmarks.