Rusia - March 28th, 2018

Elections in Russia 2018…

With a 61% turnout to the polls
Putin and his 7 friends ran as candidates

A true farce and a scandalous electoral fraud

The gendarme of the subjugated people of Eurasia and the killer of the Syrian masses on behalf of imperialism wants to put some makeup on its government and counterrevolutionary regime

This is what happened in the last elections of March 18th. There were 3 candidates from the old Stalinist nomenclature, which today has become the sumptuous Russian oligarchy. Those 3 candidates were: Putin, the former boss of KGB; Pavel Grudinin, also known as “the king of strawberry” because of its farming businesses, who ran as candidate of the official Communist Party (who got 11,77% of the votes) and Maxim Suraikin from the dissident Communist Party (which got 0.68%) who took over a high tech company when Stalinsm sold out the former USSR to imperialism at gunpoint. Putin “competed” also “against” the candidate of his current party, United Russia, as he ran as an independent candidate, in order to get rid of all the charges of corruption of that party full of corrupted and expropriators of the people that have been managing the business deals of the oligarchy and imperialism in “the Great Russia”. In this fraud, there were also 4 candidates that did not surpass 0.1% of the votes. They were “Great Russian” ultra-nationalists that competed to see who the best supporter of general Putin’s saber was, bearing in mind that Putin is the murderer of the nations that the “Great Russia” subjugates and the gendarme of the EU and USA for Eurasia and Middle East.

Imperialist hypocrisy before the expulsion of Russian diplomats The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a nervous agent in London. In response, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States launched a diplomatic campaign in which more than 100 Russian diplomats were expelled by the governments of 27 countries mainly belonging to NATO. The imperialist powers have for years been applauding Putin for the massacre he commits against the Syrian masses who rebelled for bread and freedom, but shout "a terrorist act!" for the death of a single former agent. What an inmense act of hypocrisy!

The so-called “independent candidate”, Navalny, accused of corruption, was banned from elections because he was critical to Putin. They were preventing gaps from being opened, as throughout those gaps the hatred of the masses against the opprobrium, oppression and plundering regime could pass through. This already happened when Navalny was arrested and thousands took to the streets to fight for democratic elementary freedoms in a “Great Russia” where the law forbids to go on strike or to fight for any national right of the subjugated peoples, and it even forbids four people marching together, or even one person rises a sign on a certain street. These are punished by law.
This is the infamous Bonapartist regime of the murderer Putin, supported by the European Left Party, by all the Communist Parties in Europe and the world, which have become direct agents of imperialism, by the “re-newers” Syriza and Podemos. They are camouflaged by a large share of the renegades of Trotskysim, which wash the hands of their massacre in Syria.
With this true election fraud they try to give credit to the coward murderer lackey that gave away Ukraine for the IMF and NATO. Previously, when his oligarch partner Yanukovich was president of Ukraine, they had already sold out Ukraine to IMF plundering, a fierce exploitation of the Ukrainian workers movement. For those workers to survive they had to go away (nearly a third left) to work as slaves of the European Union season.
This was an election fraud of a regime and a government that subjugate nations. The counterrevolutionary government that can openly massacre in Syria today, with the confidence of imperialism, is because it was tested yesterday killing 4 million Chechens that rose against the “great Russian” oppression.

What happened in March 18th elections was a fraud, a lie and a deception to support the guns with which the new multi-millionaire oligarchy, linked to world imperialism throughout thousands of economical, political and military connections, keeps the Russian proletariat under its jackboot so they never “dare” again to storm the heavens.

The results of the elections were already predicted months before they happened. Every bourgeois election is a deception to the workers and the poor people, because it’s an attempt to sweetener and cover the fiercest capital dictatorship. However, this election in Russia didn’t even have any sweetener.
Putin ran as a candidate along with his partners under a terror regime, that cannot allow the smallest democratic liberty (therefore it has Bonapartist form), because on those liberties some gaps could be opened, and the rage of millions of Russian exploited and of those nationalities that the “Great Russia” oppresses could irrupt.
The seven candidates who followed Putin could perfectly be members of the same electoral list and the same ballot papers.

Putin has received immediately the greetings and appreciation of all presidents in the world, and, of course, in the first place, those of the imperialist countries. His friend, Trump, greeted him in a low voice; as they were trying to stop the businesses that they have in common from being known as well as those which are being prepared by the US industrial-military apparatus companies with Putin and his businesses selling armament. 
The former boss of the KGB brags about his 76.69%, a percentage even bigger that on the previous elections on 2012 (63.60%). Under the conditions of this electoral fraud, this cannot be different, because it was logical for the real Putin to be the one who gets Putin’s votes.
Merkel’s German government recognized Putin’s victory and congratulated him, even that this results were already anticipated; the genocidal Assad; the starvation government of Maduro; the restorer of capitalism, servant of the US imperialism, and counterrevolutionary agent in Latin America, Raúl Castro; as also Xi Jinping, leader of the red mandarins, murders of Tiananmen, that under the transnationals companies and the imperialism command, transformed Beijing in the city which has the most multimillionaires in the world.

Just to mention one more element about this fraud and this electoral deception, millions of workers were forced to go voting, under the bayonets of the National Guard, the same one that was in charge of controlling the results of the ballot boxes. Even Hitler would be jealous of this “democratic” regime that preserves the terror of the old KGB and the old counterrevolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy, and all the filthiness of capitalism and the new oligarchy, crushing, looting and consuming until the last drop of the working class and the oppressed nation’s blood today.

 

The government of the “great russian” oligarchs is based in an armoured regimen

We insist in how the 8 candidates who contested the elections were all Putin. Because they are all linked with thousands business, robberies and thefts in the “Great Russia”, under the leadership of the family of oligarchs asociated to the world imperialism and who have come from the old naming of the former counterrevolutionary stalinist bureocrats. They kept all the factories, banks and lands of the former USSR.
Every loophole or minimally democratic opening would mean the irruption of the working class that in order to tell the truth,subjected to a terrible and brutal exploitation, each time more distinguishes those who openly stole the wealth of the former USSR, associated with world imperialism, with whose companies share the looting of gas, oil, finance and industrial-military apparatus "Great Russian".
An oligarchy totally subjugated and imbricated with the imperialist banking. In Frankfurt, in London, on Wall Street, in Cyprus and in the Bahamas there is 80% of the gold, dollars and euros that the "Great Russian" oligarchy have been stolen since the year '89 as the heiress of the Stalinist bureaucracy that sold out the USSR to imperialism.
So imbricated are the "8 Putin" with the oligarchy that there was not a single candidate who was really "opposition" to Putin. Who wanted to pose as an opponent and channel the immense hatred that the masses expressed in mass mobilizations during 2017 (since, as we said, Navalny, the bourgeois who fulfilled that role and could really be the opposition was not even allow to set his candidacy) was Ksenia Sobchak, who obtained 1.68%. This journalist based her election campaign on the slogan "against everyone", but this was not credible
She is the daughter of Anatoli Sobchak, the mayor of St. Petersburg who set Putin in politics. His father was Putin's mentor and at the same time the political chief of Dmitry Medvedev, Gorbachev's presidential consultant, when he started the USSR's surrender to the Anglo-American imperialism of Reagan and Thatcher in the mid-1980s. Anatoli Sobchak was also a parliamentary partner of Yeltsin (who in 1989-1991 snatched the power of the USSR in a palace coup) and then president of the Constituent Assembly of '93 which instituted that prison for workers, poor peasants and nationalities oppressed which is the Russian Federation today.

They are all from the same kidney: they all come from the Stalinist counterrevolutionary nomenclature and they are the ones who sold out the USSR and they became a new bourgeoisie tied with thousands of businesses with imperialism.

As we have already said, as if this were not enough, the climate in which the elections took place is far from the "democracy" that the communist parties and their ex-Trotskyists bakers want to show. As we said, during 2017 there were massive mobilizations declared "illegal" where hundreds of people were imprisoned and repressed. The regime was armed with its National Guard preparing for any uprising in Russia. It is that in the "democratic paradise of Putin" according to the report CreditSuisse Global WealthReport 2016, 1% of the population of Russia is in possession of 74.5% of the national wealth and there are 20.3 million people under the poverty threshold (13.9% of the population). They are people whose monthly income is below the minimum to be able to subsist (currently corresponds to 9,889 rubles or 158 euros); thousands of workers do not receive their salary and are condemned to hunger and indebtedness due to unpayable credits.

This abominable regime of bloody exploiters is wanted to be passed as "friend of the people" when they are those who massacre in Syria and are those who imposed that the miners of Donbass in Ukraine submit to their partners, the oligarchs of that country. Thus they prevented the unity of the Ukrainian working class so that the shout of the revolutionary miners who revolted by claiming "We want the return of the USSR!" will not triumph. The big ones interested in crushing the revolution and even leaving Ukraine were not only NATO, but also Putin and the Russian oligarchy. Is that to triumph the cry of "We want the return of the USSR!" would mean that all of them lose their heads as yesterday happened to the Tsars and not to mention the property, land and companies that they robbed to the working class.

That is why for the imperialism it is indispensable the role played by this counterrevolutionary regime and the Russian oligarchy, whose life depends on keep under its boots and bayonets the Russian working class and all the oppressing people. This is the material basis of this assassin who today openly slaughters the masses in Syria.
As we stated in the advancement of book Ukraine in civil war, this counterrevolutionary gendarme takes good care of nuclear weapons and the Russian industrial-military apparatus, inherited from the USSR, so that they do not fall into the hands of revolutionary attacks of the masses.

Meanwhile, imperialism in bankrupt in the middle of the open trade war between the different imperialist gangs like the EU, Japan, England and the US that is on the offensive, threatens more and more to throw all its crisis to Putin's Russia. Keeping directly with the business of oil, gas and its industrial-military apparatus is a precious treasure that the imperialist gangs want for themselves without intermediaries and that they are already openly disputing, as we also develop in the advancement of the book.

Imperialism, which ordered Al Assad and Putin to do the "dirty work" of massacring in Syria, knows perfectly well that Russia is eaten away by a huge capital flight and by huge expenditures of the state apparatus, which have been further exacerbated by the expenses of the war in Syria, beyond the business that Putin hopes to do with the sale of arms. The devaluation of the ruble and the huge part of the profits that the imperialism takes from the oil and gas, where its companies are partners in the plundering of Russia, push more and more to a brake on economic growth and prepare new leaps in the Russian crisis, which is expressed in a huge deficit and payment crisis of the state. Hundreds and thousands of companies, friends of Putin and his gang, are fictitiously supported by the state, which threatens to go bankrupt. The delay in the payment of health workers, education and public services becomes to one year and in the best case, they pay them in installments.

The Putin government hopes to get a break to deepen its offensive against the masses. It is a Bonapartism of "empty hands". The fight for land and bread is again the motor of struggle of the Russian working class. When they take to the streets to fight "against corruption" they are facing just this: the huge theft that the gangs of the former Stalinist bureaucracy made against the people, keeping all the companies and lands, either under the state orbit ( managing business) or private, filling their pockets with theft to the people. Every Russian worker and exploited knows that the oligarchs did not make these enormous riches "working", much less: they distributed as hyenas the goods of the Soviet state while they sold out the USSR to imperialism. That is why all the fight against "corruption" in the former workers states is different from what it can be in any other country in the world: it is a fight against the traitors of the PC turned into oligarchs and their restorative regime.

The electoral fraud was nothing more than a smokescreen that quickly dissipates. As we saw in the last months, prior to the elections, the opposition Navalny called for the boycott of the elections. At each rally or meeting the repression was felt and there were 240 detainees. They even sentenced one of the protesters against Medvedev (Russian Prime Minister) to 25 days in prison for having shown a rubber duck through the window (in reference to the garden that Medvedev has in one of his mansions where he has a lake full of ducks). Another protester was also convicted for having participated in a public assembly ... and the cases multiply. Being an opponent of the regime in Russia means persecution and jail.

It is because while Putin shows himself as  the victor, massacring the Syrian masses on account of imperialism, the children and women who still subsist in the resistance, besieged by the bombs of the regime of Bashar the dog and his friend Putin; more and more, the regime was bonapartised within Russia and the nations that it opresses; and more imperialist powers squeeze and extort Putin to continue fulfilling his role as gendarme. This is how, with the excuse of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in England, the USA and 20 other countries have expelled a hundred Russian diplomats, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc. And all continue to demand the return of Crimea and maintain the embargo of the accounts of Russian magnates. More and more imperialism corners Putin, more and more he must fulfill his role as gendarme and murderer of Eurasia, and more and more to attack his own people.
What hypocrisy is that of imperialism! From London, Frankfurt and Washington mourn the death of a former spy of Putin, while applauding and agreeing to the massacre and genocide in Syria.

Out with Putin, repressor of the workers in Russia and assasin and gendarme on account of imperialism in Eurasia!

Down with the counterrevolutionary pacts of Geneva, Astana and Minsk, with wich the imperialist powers, Putin and the native bourgeoisies drown the Syrian and Ukrainian revolution in blood! Out with Assad, Russia, Turkey, the US and all the invading Syrian troops! Out with Putin from Crimea; Crimea is from Ukraine!

The Russian workers and exploited are the ones who can move Russia from its foundations and conquer all its demands by taking up the war slogan of the workers of the Ukrainian Donbass: Let the USSR return without Stalinist bureaucrats or those who sold out socialism!

For the right to self-determination for nations oppressed by the "great Russia"!

Open the road to the workers and soldiers councils! For the seizure and nationalization without payment of all property, businesses and land stolen to the workers by Putin, his gang and all the former counterrevolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy!

For the restoration of the dictatorship of the proletariat under revolutionary forms in all the former workers states!

For the Socialist United States of Europe from Portugal to the Russian steppes!

Nadia Briante and Eliza Funes