Russian Candidates

[Susurrus]

http://rt.com/politics/russia-nominates-presidential-candidate-303/

And I thought we had it bad here in America...

[The Young Pioneer]

"Several other Russian politicians have also declared their presidential ambitions."

Wow, Russia has candidates? :confused:

And here I was, silly me, thinking the ballot looked like:

__ Putin
__ Putin
__ Putin with henchman Medvedev
__ Putin

[phyrrus9]

I vote for Putin ..... I dont like Putin, Putin, Or henchmen Medvedev

[mrmikhail]

"Several other Russian politicians have also declared their presidential ambitions."

Wow, Russia has candidates? :confused:

And here I was, silly me, thinking the ballot looked like:

__ Putin
__ Putin
__ Putin with henchman Medvedev
__ Putin

Russia has candidates much like the US has from "third parties", they are on the ballot but have next to no chance of gaining any seats in parliament or the presidency.

[Susurrus]

The Candidates:

-Putin "The Godfather"
-Zyuganov "The Weasel"
-Zhirinovsky "The Totally Insane Idiot"
-Limonov "The Nazbol Ron Paul"

[Nox]

I can guarantee that Putin will be elected.

As for who I think should be elected, probably Zyuganov. State Capitalism would be much better than the shitty situation Russia is in now.

Anyone except Zhirinovsky. He's a fucking lunatic.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ill vote for whoever can get the most people to publicly display their name across peoples' naughty bits.


proven strategy in free and democratic russia.

[The Young Pioneer]

Responding to the accusation that Russian politics has no new faces, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin promptly went in for plastic surgery.

:D

[Red Future]

Anyone notice KPRF standing on a "no immigration" policy this time. I guess populist slogans arent the reserve of LDPR after all.

[A Marxist Historian]

Anyone notice KPRF standing on a "no immigration" policy this time. I guess populist slogans arent the reserve of LDPR after all.

Calling the KPRF populist is grossly unfair to all actual populists, such as your average OWS participant.

Their anti-immigration stand is hardly surprising, being as they are also gaybashers and Jew-haters, not to mention Chechen haters.

Probably MCP's too. Lord only knows what their stand is on "the woman question," but I'll bet a lot of rubles it ain't too swift.

-M.H.-

[Die Neue Zeit]

As for who I think should be elected, probably Zyuganov. State Capitalism would be much better than the shitty situation Russia is in now.

Anyone except Zhirinovsky. He's a fucking lunatic.


Anyone notice KPRF standing on a "no immigration" policy this time. I guess populist slogans arent the reserve of LDPR after all.


Calling the KPRF populist is grossly unfair to all actual populists, such as your average OWS participant.

Their anti-immigration stand is hardly surprising, being as they are also gaybashers and Jew-haters, not to mention Chechen haters.

Probably MCP's too. Lord only knows what their stand is on "the woman question," but I'll bet a lot of rubles it ain't too swift.

-M.H.-

While we're discussing the KPRF's nationalism, why is the left wing of that organization nostalgic for Lenin's Soviet Union instead of rediscovering Stalin's larger, more unitary RSFSR (http://www.revleft.com/vb/nationalities-soviet-union-t61251/index.html) - and advocating the latter for most of or all of the post-Soviet space?

[RED DAVE]

While we're discussing the KPRF's nationalism, why is the left wing of that organization nostalgic for Lenin's Soviet Union instead of rediscovering Stalin's larger, more unitary RSFSR (http://www.revleft.com/vb/nationalities-soviet-union-t61251/index.html) - and advocating that for most of or all of the post-Soviet space?That's becuase just like some people can't figure out that the pre-WWI German SPD was a counter-revolutionary, these shits can't fIgure out that Lenin's USSR was genuinely revolutionary.

RED DAVE

[Die Neue Zeit]

Lenin didn't foresee the possibility of Balkanization, unlike the People's Commissar for Nationalities.

[RED DAVE]

Lenin didn't foresee the possibility of Balkanization, unlike the People's Commissar for Nationalities.I assume that, since this is an English sentence, with a subject, a verb, etc., that it means something, but for the life of me ... .

RED DAVE

[Leftsolidarity]

Did it say the Communist Party is second in the polls??

[piet11111]

the People's Commissar for Nationalities.

Stalin ?

I think a lot of people would blame stalin for the isolation and eventual disintegration of the USSR because of his failure to support/betrayal of foreign revolutions.

[Tovarisch]

The Candidates:

-Putin "The Godfather"
-Zyuganov "The Weasel"
-Zhirinovsky "The Totally Insane Idiot"
-Limonov "The Nazbol Ron Paul"
That list is shit. Both Zhirinovsky and Zyuganov are deeply hated, never heard about Limonov

[Crux]

Did it say the Communist Party is second in the polls??
Don't get too excited.

[Leftsolidarity]

Don't get too excited.

I'm confused more than anything

[El Louton]

Did it say the Communist Party is second in the polls??

I saw that on Russia Today! Is this good or are they corrupt Stalinists?

[Nox]

I saw that on Russia Today! Is this good or are they corrupt Stalinists?

They aren't too desimilar from the National Bolsheviks

[Red Future]

They aren't too desimilar from the National Bolsheviks

Which I should add are apparently banned now. Not that they were politically significant anyway though.