Threat from the left: why Prilepin proposes to erect a monument to Stalin in Moscow

According to media reports, Zakhar Prilepin, Co-Chairman of the Fair Russia - Patriots - For Truth party (Spropatzap) party, proposed to erect a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow. According to the secretary of the presidium of the Central Council of the party, Alexander Kazakov, the collection of signatures from Muscovites for the installation of the monument will begin after May 9. “Now we are gradually beginning to understand in a new way the role of Stalin in history, politics, economy, culture, and not only in the Great Patriotic War. The idea of installing the monument will be approved by everyone who realistically looks at the history of Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, and does not believe in the fake that Nikita Khrushchev offered everyone, ”Kazakov explained. It is clarified that Prilepin and Kazakov discussed the idea of erecting a monument to Stalin in Moscow at a time when both were in Donbass. According to Kazakov, “now this topic has been updated in connection with the installation of a monument to [Felix] Dzerzhinsky”.

It is noteworthy that this news appeared the next day after this one:

“On May 8, the Nizhny Novgorod communists are planning to lay the first stone in the construction of the Stalin Center in the town of Bor in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. It should become the largest among the existing ones in the country. The leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation told Vedomosti that the party "will certainly support" such an initiative.

“Now there is“ Yeltsin Center ”as a symbol of the oligarchic, liberal collapse of the country, why not think about erecting a center that will symbolize creation. Now such symbols are in demand, and there is nothing surprising that such ideas are being put forward, especially when it comes to building a center with money raised by the people, "said State Duma deputy Alexander Yushchenko, press secretary of the chairman of the Communist Party Central Committee Gennady Zyuganov..."

In this regard, the publicist Nikolay Podoskorsky fears that Prilepin, in the wake of pro-Stalinist propaganda, may end up in the State Duma:

“This is what I thought about this. Smart voting is, of course, not bad, but if the sorceress Pamfilova draws a majority for United Russia in any case, then maybe it should be done so that at least this “Spropatzap” is not in the Duma? Or then the Prilepins will abandon the game of opposition and simply migrate to EdRo? In any case, voting for those parties that are represented in the current parliament, in my opinion, is the same as supporting Stalinism. As Prilepin's idol Stalin said in such cases: "Both are worse!"

But political scientist Abbas Gallyamov believes that Prilepin's action is designed to weaken the supporters of Smart Vote on the eve of the elections, and nothing more:

“It is becoming more and more obvious that the main task of the united SR-Prilepins will be to take votes away from the Communists. The previous spoilers in the person of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Suraikinites clearly did not cope with their task, they needed reinforcement.

On the whole, the Kremlin's plan is clear. It is necessary to designate the Zyuganovites "a threat from the left" and force them to rush to defend their positions among the nuclear electorate. Well, then, rubbing their hands, watch how Navalny's supporters refuse to support them in the framework of "Smart Vote" - because they do not want to vote for the people who have devoted their entire campaign not to criticizing the regime, but to fighting the Prilepins for Stalin.

It is clear that Prilepin himself will eventually get zero percent - no one will be able to pull off Stalin's fans from the Zyuganovites. But who cares about the future of the spoiler is its fate to be flushed down the toilet. But the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will not go beyond its core. Forced to fight "for Stalin" throughout the campaign, she will be deprived of "votes from the right." But Navalny's supporters will be left without candidates. Without the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, they will have absolutely no one to vote for, and they simply will not go to the polls.

Well, the main conclusion that an opposition voter can draw from all this is that it would be best for him to vote for the Zyuganovites. They are too worried about the Kremlin. Let me remind you, just to the heap, that last year the Communists were the only ones who voted in the Duma against Putin's zeroing. And then - during the so-called "popular vote" - they also opposed the amendments..."