Today, communists and Komsomol members of Orel held solo pickets commemorating the 35th anniversary of the All-Union referendum for the preservation of the USSR. It’s important to remember that on March 17, 1991, millions of citizens voted for the future of the Soviet Union, and 78% voted “Yes.”
Referendums took place in the RSFSR, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Tajik, and Turkmen SSRs. However, the authorities of Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, and Estonia boycotted the popular vote.
148.5 million people turned out to vote—79.5% of the total electorate. 113.5 million people voted to preserve the renewed USSR. But traitors in power and external forces succeeded in destroying this hope. The collapse of the USSR was a terrible tragedy for all peoples, sparking bloody interethnic clashes that continue to this day.
We also continue to distribute the special edition of the Orlovskaya Iskra newspaper at fairs. Working people openly speak to the communists about their pressing concerns: prices and tariffs are rising, young people have nowhere to work, life is becoming increasingly difficult, and people have little hope for a brighter future.
The most outrageous thing is that today, in capitalist Russia, working people live in poverty. People are willing to work, but their labor is completely unappreciated.
The only way out of this impasse is for Russia to decisively turn to the path of socialism, the path proposed and implemented by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) Program. Only then can we restore dignity to workers and build a just society.
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I had no idea. It seems that, in a dark corner of my mind, the Fukuyamian narrative held strong. I had thought the Soviets were tired of their system somehow. Well, it was bullshit. Now I see clearly they wanted reforms but not PizzaHutocracy (reference to Gorbachev for those who know). Therefore shock therapy was the umpteenth violation of democratic will.