As a foreigner, I get the sense that Russia is in a really strange place right now ideologically. Polling indicates that people who were alive at the time preferred the USSR over the Federation, however Stalin seems remembered more as a nationalist symbol than a revolutionary one. The 100th anniversary of 1917 passed four years ago with little fanfare (at least according to English language reporting), and the nominally Communist parties in Russia seem about as coherent and developed as the plonkers in England.
Personally, I think they need more time to untangle their shit and develop among themselves before I'm willing to direct support towards any particular organization as an outsider. Shock therapy really fucked them up badly.
As an Eastern European person living in the region and closer to the sources, this is close. Communists in Moldova and Russia are more about anti-Western conservatism, based in cold-war nationalism.
Common talking points: Russia VS the removed West. We won't give up our country to the US, to the LGBT EU propaganda, we protect our Christian values, we need a strict dictator, like Stalin(Putin will do) , to keep the order. World War 2 was a crowning achievement of our military might. We want to have our status as a global military power back.
That is like the conservative wing of the Putin supporters. The only thing that leftists have in common with them is being against a neoliberal takeover from foreign corporations. There are actual leftist organizations, including marxist-leninist ones, that will never support either Putin or the western-backed liberal opposition.
As a foreigner, I get the sense that Russia is in a really strange place right now ideologically. Polling indicates that people who were alive at the time preferred the USSR over the Federation, however Stalin seems remembered more as a nationalist symbol than a revolutionary one. The 100th anniversary of 1917 passed four years ago with little fanfare (at least according to English language reporting), and the nominally Communist parties in Russia seem about as coherent and developed as the plonkers in England.
Personally, I think they need more time to untangle their shit and develop among themselves before I'm willing to direct support towards any particular organization as an outsider. Shock therapy really fucked them up badly.
As an Eastern European person living in the region and closer to the sources, this is close. Communists in Moldova and Russia are more about anti-Western conservatism, based in cold-war nationalism.
Common talking points: Russia VS the removed West. We won't give up our country to the US, to the LGBT EU propaganda, we protect our Christian values, we need a strict dictator, like Stalin(Putin will do) , to keep the order. World War 2 was a crowning achievement of our military might. We want to have our status as a global military power back.
That is like the conservative wing of the Putin supporters. The only thing that leftists have in common with them is being against a neoliberal takeover from foreign corporations. There are actual leftist organizations, including marxist-leninist ones, that will never support either Putin or the western-backed liberal opposition.