Communists have been giving journalists many reasons to write about them. Unfortunately, those are neither progressive draft laws, nor pickets organized by the party in protest against, for example, the fact that it is the fourth month of 2010 now, but the country still does not have a budget for this year.
Following the idea of the Zaporizhia activists to erect a monument to Joseph Stalin by May 9, it has become known that 40 billboards have appeared in the streets of Luhansk on the initiative of the local center of the Communist Party. They feature Lenin’s portrait and an inscription, “So how do you like living in capitalism?” Moreover, the Luhansk communists do not rule out that similar billboards with Stalin’s portrait may well appear by Victory Day.
Meanwhile, Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko has already stated that the Cabinet of Ministers will not stand in the way of realization of this kind of ideas by the Communist Party. On the one hand, there is some logic in the fact that the government has no remarks on the propaganda activity of the communists. There is no way Regionals will fight their closest allies because of such petty things as ideological nostalgia. On the other hand, Semynozhenko must have forgotten the lectures on Scientific Communism, according to which he and his fellow party members fall under the definition “sharks of capitalism.”
The question arises here, Whom is Lenin asking so sternly as he stared from the Luhansk billboards? Is this his followers, who have found a cozy place under the MP privileges umbrella and are enjoying their chunk of damned capitalistic business? Or, perhaps, their present-day allies with the “modest” fortunes of oligarchs? (Lenin and Marx might have a good laugh once they knew what metamorphoses have occurred to their “partisans.”) Won’t we have to defend our new president and his team in the near future from threatening communists who have suddenly recalled the “eternal” learning of their grandfather Lenin?
