Nina Andreeva: Putin's amendments should be rejected

Interview N.A. Andreeva edition of "Interlocutor" March 18, 2020

In March 1988, the teacher of the Leningrad University Nina Andreeva, the author of the famous article “I Can’t Give Up Principles” (was published in “Soviet Russia”), put the Politburo on its ears and made the whole country talk about itself.

Then Andreeva expressed concern about the course pursued by Mikhail Gorbachev. Now, after 32 years, she is still worried about the future of a country that is again at a turning point.

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Today Nina Andreeva once again appeals to readers. But not in connection with perestroika, but after the Constitutional Court legalized the right of Vladimir Putin for the fifth and sixth terms. Andreeva calls for a boycott of the vote on amendments that, in her opinion, “are designed to give the appearance of legality to preserve the power of President Putin, who has been at the head of the country for twenty years. It is supposed to change the form of power in Russia so that Putin remains its sovereign leader, and the political regime itself does not change its essence. ”

According to Nina Andreeva, “the balance of power between capital and the masses can be changed only as a result of the revolutionary struggle of the working masses for their rights and interests - for socialism. No hope for a “parliamentary republic" or a "good president" is real. "

"When will this banditry by the authorities end?"

“The purpose of my letter in 1988 was to urge people to pay attention to what is being done in the country and where the current government is leading,” says Nina Andreeva. - Exactly the same thing I'm talking about now. But the situation has changed. People are so absorbed in the fight against poverty that the bulk of the population is not up to politics.

I lead the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which we created in 1991, and I know what is happening in the regions: people are fighting for survival. They are afraid to lean out so as not to lose that very little that they have today. The impoverishment of the population is evident.

It’s not enough to say that people were crushed. They were all dragged into a noose. They don’t even pay salaries, which is wildness. This is a mockery of common sense when those in power determine the minimum wage of 11 thousand rubles. Probably, to feed Putin’s dogs, which he already has a whole kennel, and then you need more every day than this cost of living for a simple hard worker for a month. When will this banditry by the authorities end? It is impossible to live on the money that she defines as a living wage.



"The skin is torn so that nothing remains even under the skin"

- Pensioners of our two capitals - northern and Moscow - still make ends meet somehow. But in the regions, people who have worked for 40 years receive a pension of 7-8 thousand rubles. This is a mockery! And how much are the drugs? And housing services? What about transport? What about food? The population was reduced to the position of slaves. Of course, one cannot be content with this.

What is happening with healthcare now ?! This is a disgrace! If you want to get more or less tolerable treatment, you have to go to a paid clinic. But the paid system bites too much, it is not available to the vast majority of citizens. Although all these benefits are created by these our hard workers. Someone from the American billionaires formulated the idea well: the bees collect honey, but they do not use it. Do our workaholic bees use the wealth that they should have, based on their contribution to national income? The answer is obvious. The situation is critical.

The protest is ripening among the people, and it is no different from the “yellow vests” protest in France. All 25 points put forward by the French workers in front of their government and President Macron are the same as ours. On the so-called pension reform, as a result of increasing the retirement age, the state has already saved 20 billion rubles over the past period. And for the year 2020 this will amount to 50 billion. The skin is being torn! And as they tear, nothing remains even under the skin.

"Putin is surrounded by a gang of" reformers "from the Lake cooperative

- For changes to take place in the country, it is necessary that the communist and protest movement be ready for action. But by the attempts of the authorities, we have so many registered pseudo-communist parties that today there is no single communist movement. As well as there is no single protest movement.

There are no leaders in the communist movement. Those that are, for the most part, are fiction, figlars. Being essentially Kremlin projects (the more parties and leaders, the easier it is to neutralize them), they put above all not business, not the interests of the people, but their own “I”, opportunism and a good everyday life. Everyone is sitting shut, if only they who did not pick them up. Their goal now, at the moment, is to drag people into polling stations on April 22 with beautiful words.

The liberals, like us, are in favor of a boycott of the vote on constitutional amendments, which I think is absolutely right, because the sole purpose of the vote is to legitimize everything that happened under Yeltsin. But liberals are not defenders of Russia: they look
They are working in the West, and mainly due to the fact that they receive generous grants from abroad. We are out of the way with them. They yell, “Down with Putin!”, And we say that today, by and large, the issue is not Putin, but the whole oligarchic criminal system, this capitalist bourgeois system, which was established through a political coup in 1991 against the will of the people.

Look who surrounds Putin - a gang of "reformers" from the Lake cooperative, his fellow students at the law faculty of Leningrad University, employees of the city administration (city hall) of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) when Mayor A. Sobchak was working (when Putin worked there), KGB associates, relatives of varying degrees of kinship. They are all upstairs, they are almost all billionaires. Did they give something back without a fight?

The robbery of the country continues on an enormous scale. And if we take into account that all the natural resources of our country are in private hands, then we can safely say: they steal from us to the point of insanity. And nothing says that the government will stop it. Because oligarchs are power.

The President, to put it mildly, was misleading, recently answering a question from the TASS correspondent about oligarchs in the draft “20 Questions to Putin”. He said that we have no oligarchs. They supposedly remained in the past. Now there are billionaires ... How is it not the oligarchs ?! If they are not deputies of the State Duma, but are mayors or heads of large industrial holdings and banks, this does not mean that they do not rule the current government in the country. Even how they rule! And only the "naive" cannot fail to understand this.

“We call for a boycott of the vote”

- The current economic system has long become obsolete. If everything remains as it is, and Russia continues to follow the market economy, then the country will face very difficult times. I think that Russia is unlikely to hold on as an independent state.

Life itself requires a change in the socio-political system: we need a complete rejection of the liberal capitalist system, a transition to the Stalinist model of economic management, which has shown full effectiveness. Russia needs socialism. Putin will naturally not do this. Obviously, the tops do not want to change anything.

To change the country, it is necessary that the lower classes be capable of organized action against the existing oligarchic regime. The Russians are not yet ready for this. But they are quite capable of boycotting the upcoming vote. The proposed “new” Yeltsin Constitution with Putin’s cosmetic patches, enshrining further lawlessness of the people, should be rejected.

We Bolsheviks are calling for a boycott of the vote on April 22, 2020.

Nina Andreeva.

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