Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:00:05 -0500
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: godenas-AT-edgenet.net (Louis R. Godena)
Subject: Russia's Communists


Re: the presidential elections in June.  Judging by Thursday's report by 
Vladimir Davydov, Russia Deputy-prosecutor, outright fraud of virtually 
every description will be employed by Yelstin and his western backers, 
including the International Monetary Fund, to ensure a "favorable" outcome 
in the June elections.  

Davydov told parliament that up to half of the 1 million signatures 
"collected" by Yeltsin backers to put the president on the ballot were 
probably obtained fraudulently.  In one of many examples cited, factory 
workers were forced to sign petitions for "democracy's champion" before they 
could collect their pay.  On others occasions, mid-level military officers 
loyal to Gen Grachev simply filled in the names of the men in their 
regiments, often not even bothering to change their handwriting from one 
signature to the next.

Numerous government departments witnessed the birth of internal Yelstin 
campaign organizations, utilizing virtually every public means at their 
disposal to ensure the requisite number of signatures.  And there were many 
examples of outright coercian directed against pensioners, farm workers, and 
the like.

With Russia's criminal "democracy" and "free market" in tatters, imperialism 
and its lackeys inside the Soviet Union, including the numerous "democratic" 
parties (many of whom were only yesterday peddling their bogus "human 
rights" campaigns in an attempt to excite popular indignation against 
socialism) will stop at nothing, including another coup, to see that the 
"liberals" cling to power.  It is not that they fear Zyuganov and the 
born-again communists so much as the demoralizing effect a communist victory 
would have on the political landscape of Russia, a country now overripe for 
the picking. 



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