[lbo-talk] Russian Communists admit big loss of support at poorly-attended plenum

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Oct 24 09:54:24 PDT 2004


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
> BBC Monitoring
> Russian Communists admit big loss of support at
> poorly-attended plenum
> Source: NTV Mir, Moscow, in Russian 0900 gmt 23 Oct 04

Well one major problem was that in the last election, they ran on a platform was that little different from Putin's. But Putin had the advantage that he is in a position where he could actually deliver on at least some of his promises whereas the Communists could not. So it's not too surprising that their electoral support has been evaporating over the last several years.

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