Russians miss Soviet Union

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igyvAVq-r7A&feature=channel

Russian communists have met to commemorate the date, when heroic citizens were defending Supreme Soviet from president Yeltsin, who sent an army against politicians protecting the constitution.

Yeltsin had a tank shoot at the Russian white house, stormed the government with soldiers. Many have been killed, others arrested. He unconstitutionally dissolved the supreme soviet and changed the constitution to give himself more power and become authoritarian leader after which he sold people's enterprises to opportunists creating 17 billionaires and pulling 70.000.000 people into poverty!

At the end of Yeltsins presidency, his support was only 2% and in the next election Communist Party of Russian Federation would win the election. He privatised almost everything, which he did for bribes which he used in the election campaign and TV promoting him as the only option for the presidency.

He won again and took away dignity from millions of people. Millions have ended on the streets, old people were forced to grow their own food in their dachas and countryside, because pensions were so low they couldnt cover the cost for food. Many children were forced into streets. The last time people lived so precarious was straight after WWII! Childbirth dropped. Live expectancy fell, suicide rates multipled, crime and murder rocketered and the safe life in Soviet Union was gone. Russia was controlled by gangs and criminals. Streets became murderous at night. Crime led to over 500.000 young women being trafficked to other countries and sold as sex slaves!

Yeltsin is the worst leader in the history of Russia! For me, he is as bad as Stalin. Yeltsin destroyed the lives of almost everyone who lived in Russia at that time! Even now, over 15 years after Yeltsin took complete power, life in Russia is much worse for many than during Soviet times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igyvAVq-r7A&feature=channel

How did Yeltsin win again when his support was only 2%?
And where does it says the Communist Fedaration party won?
I dotn think that ever happend in the Russian Elections.

Holy shit and say Pavel Bure support those guys.... Yikes

How did he win with 2%?

Tyrong Kojy wrote:

How did he win with 2%?

Seconded in mah first post but still.

Nothing surprising.

How did Yeltsin win with 2%? That's how elections work, you rig them and get the ruling countries to approve of them.

Yeltsin was awesome for the G7 so they'd gladly validate any election in which he won.

Russia is indeed fucked as hell thanks to this and Russians are now deluded by Pootiepootputin'... but USSR would have never collapsed if it had been socialist in the first place.

But they had elections and Yelstin won(in 1996) with 53.8%.
How tha F can that be 2%?
And it got counted and he had 53.8% of the votes(40,208,384 votes).

CMon guys, lets call Gorbachev

Jesus wrote:

CMon guys, lets call Gorbachev

What for?

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

Jesus wrote:

CMon guys, lets call Gorbachev

What for?

Reform the USSR, same guy that annonced his destruction, would annonce it's reinstitution would be fun and ironic

Jesus wrote:

Reform the USSR, same guy that annonced his destruction, would annonce it's reinstitution would be fun and ironic

Unlikely and wouldn't be fun. The guy is so hated in Russia that eh was even punched in the face by a guy that approached him during a speech.

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

Jesus wrote:

Reform the USSR, same guy that annonced his destruction, would annonce it's reinstitution would be fun and ironic

Unlikely and wouldn't be fun. The guy is so hated in Russia that eh was even punched in the face by a guy that approached him during a speech.

So the Bush of Russia?

Tyrong Kojy wrote:

So the Bush of Russia?

I don't think USA has got someone comparable to Gorbachyov. If any US president can be blamed on making US split into at least 17 different countries with conflicts between each other, then that guy will be comparable to Gorbachyov.

Zealot_Kommunizma wrote:

Jesus wrote:

Reform the USSR, same guy that annonced his destruction, would annonce it's reinstitution would be fun and ironic

Unlikely and wouldn't be fun. The guy is so hated in Russia that eh was even punched in the face by a guy that approached him during a speech.

You got a youtube vid for that, I wanna see .

CoolKidX wrote:

You got a youtube vid for that, I wanna see .

I haven't seen if it's recorded on youtube, but must be.

So, the Russians are tired of being exploited by Capitalism and want to go back to being exploited by the USSR.

actually, the old exploitation might of been worse, but Im not sure since I didnt live then. all I know is East German Democratic Republic for the win!

Liche wrote:

So, the Russians are tired of being exploited by Capitalism and want to go back to being exploited by the USSR.

People are not exploited by capitalism, capitalism is the condition in which people are explioited and it existed both in USSR, in the Russian Empire and in nowadays Russia. Just things were far more even during USSR and there was much more social stability, else, as a nation, USSR was far more powerful than what Russia can hope to be.

Kenzu wrote:

He gave state owned companies to his buddies and they fueled his campaign with billions of Rubles and there was heavy propaganda supporting him on all TV channels.

I don't see how this could have happened if teh Soviet system had been succesful...

Kenzu wrote:

And the stupid idiots voted for him, because most people believe what the TV says.

A demonstration that the Soviet system failed to provide the soviet population with some basic understandings.

After all they were just deluded workers, like the workers that think the system's doing fine cause they got a nice salary or at least awesome welfare.

Kenzu wrote:

And after he won the completed the destruction of Russian economy and living standards.

True, something that wouldn't have happened had the Soviet system been functional.

Kenzu wrote:

Somehow the people who voted for him deserve the life they have, however the people who voted for the communist party candidate don't deserve that life.

Nope, they don't. The soviet system failed to prepare them into not falling into that shit.

Kenzu wrote:

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PS: Yeltsin had falling support and around 1 year before election support for him was only 2%, because he was a complete failure at anything he has done (except robbing people). The media however showed him in an extremely positive light and that's why he won.

That's how capitalism works, or actually how exploitative systems work: based on lies and imagery, not on truth, arguements and knowledge.

Yeah and they mostly do stupid decisions, like the KHL (Kontinantal Hockey League) they have back there, they pay big money for european players to come back to the old continent (Jaromir Jagr has a salary of 10 Millions per year exempt of Taxes or any kind of redistribution, with financed car and house). They wouldn't get that money from the crowd that was coming to the game or the Concessions they we're selling, only from they're companies, and now the oil price is falling down, and the russian economy is crashing. So they are kinda screwed, since they have to pay all that money+all the losses theyre companies have.