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The USSR can only be restored by reviving socialism

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We know from other sources that Russia has been seeking for a deep representation of what they are. There is a new search for an identity that is expressed in a shorter slogan. The best way to explain it is to point to the Chinese slogan – socialism with Chinese characteristics or perhaps, a community of common destiny for mankind, or community with a shared future. We will soon see an article on the Russian search for a similar depiction of themselves.

It is not strange then that some in Russia seeks this in older communism. What is lost in that translation is that socialism is not static. It is not a destination but a journey. I for one cannot look forward to a revival of the Bolscheviks.

This is from Joti Brar.

The USSR can only be restored by reviving socialism

Today, the Russian presidential adviser Anton Kobyakov made a very remarkable statement. He noted that the procedure for dissolving the USSR in 1991 was violated, so the Soviet Union legally continues to exist.

Kobyakov said:
– If the Congress of People’s Deputies, also known as the Congress of Soviets, created the USSR in 1922, then it should have been dissolved by a decision of the Congress of these same deputies. And if the legal procedure was violated, then it turns out that the USSR legally exists, as constitutional law experts say.

We, communists, have long formulated this position. The USSR was created by the decision of the First All-Union Congress of Soviets, which brought together more than 2,000 delegates representing about 150 million people living not only in the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus, but also in Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Therefore, the decision to “dissolve the USSR”, made in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on December 8, 1991 by three not entirely sober subjects, is legal nonsense.

This is precisely why, having received powerful representation in the State Duma in the December 1995 elections, the CPRF achieved the denunciation of the Belovezh Accords in March 1996.

Of course, we welcome the fact that now a representative of the Russian executive power has supported the position of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on the illegality of the destruction of the USSR.

But there is a very important point. In 1922, the USSR was created by representatives of the Soviet republics who decided to build a new, just society together – a socialist one. This was the great common cause that united hundreds of peoples in the area from the Baltic to Chukotka, from Taimyr to Pamir.

In order to bring these nations together again today, we must once again offer them the great idea of ​​social justice. There are no other options. Therefore, if you really want the revival of the USSR, it is not enough to recognize its dissolution as legally null and void. We must begin with the restoration of socialism in Russia.

Translated from an original post by Yuri Afonin