Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 1 – At a meeting of
KPRF leadersover the weekend, Valery Rashkin, the head of the Moscow city party
committee and a member of the Duma, began a savage critique of Vladimir Putin
for “surrounding himself with oligarchs and carrying out a liberal policy of
supporting the capitalist class and the bourgeoisie.”
We agreed with him on his policy toward
Crimea, Rashkin said, but he frittered that away. Now, we have nothing in
common with him at all.” But before he could finish his indictment, Vladimir
Kashin, the deputy head of the KPRF Central Committee, cut him off (politsovet.ru/62285-na-plenume-ck-kprf-ne-razreshili-kritikovat-putina.html
and kommersant.ru/doc/3930363).
Kashin said that Rashkin had
violated the rules, and “besides, he is the leader of a city organization and
must speak about work in the city” rather than about global issues. That might have been the end of it, a
demonstration of the lack of opposition in a systemic opposition party, save
for one thing.
Although he couldn’t deliver his
remarks in full at the KPRF meeting, Rashkin was able to post the full text on the
KPRF webpage for all to see (kprf.ru/party-live/cknews/183858.html),
yet another way in which the electronic universe is subverting the efforts of
Putin and his allies to suppress any dissent.
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