cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51193069
- Economy shrank by 1.8% in first two months
- Putin has asked officials for growth policies
- Communist leader warns economy risks stoking discontent
- Comments look aimed at voters before parliamentary vote
The veteran leader of Russia’s Communist Party has warned parliament that the country’s faltering economy risks stoking a 1917-style revolution and that the government needs to take urgent measures to correct its course.
Gennady Zyuganov, 81, issued his warning to a plenary session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, ahead of a parliamentary election due in September, according to a recording of his speech posted on the Duma’s official website.
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Zyuganov said a recent government meeting convened by Putin had been the gloomiest in a long time.
“If you (the government) do not urgently adopt financial, economic and other measures, by autumn a repeat of what happened in 1917 awaits us. We don’t have the right to repeat that. Let’s take some decisions.”
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That guy isn’t communist and completely pro-Putin.
Very few bearing that label actually are.
The communist party where I live also refuses to vote for sanctions against Putin. They don’t care who runs the Kremlin, they’re just loyal to mother Russia. They’re not Russians either.