Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
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Some of this stuff, I think is pretty good, I would support it myself... Other things I feel indifferent about. But if this is what conservativism in Russia is, and if the communist party supports that then that also makes me understand why some people said they planned to vote for the KPRF.
Why should Russia become another USA clone, like Western Europe is and Eastern Europe is becoming. Also, I can't see how it matters to private citizens whether certain large Russian corporation are owned by the state, or by some oligarch who keeps the profits in a Swiss bank and is generally corrupt... What I definitely would not support, if I was Russian, was any type of revolutionary communism.
As I already said, not only KPRF supports this agenda. There are other parties in this niche: Just Russia, LDPR as examples (LDPR leader Zhirinovsky frequently likes to recall that he voted against the dissolution of the USSR unlike the KPRF). Former Moscow major Yuri Luzhkov was also somewhat conservative although he was a member of United Russia. He went into conflict with president Medvedev over the portraits of Stalin during the May 9 celebrations. He also built some form of "socialism" in Moscow so that the pensioneers received good additions to their state pension and free transportation (as it was over the whole country under the USSR). He banned all gay pride parades in Moscow. He also provided free apartment repairs to anybody including those who lived in privatized flats. Normally the state is obliged only to repair state-owned flats. But after he was fired there were major accusations of corruption against him and his wife, an owner of a construction company, against the heads of Bank of Moscow and the Moscow metro, and district prefects. To say simply against all Luzhkov people. Many of them are imprisoned.