A rally in support of the Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin today in the center of Moscow gathered, according to various estimates, from 500 to 700 people, although the organizers announced 5 thousand. The event lasted 40 minutes, the “hero of the occasion” left early, he had a television appearance.
The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, and Pavel Grudinin himself, who interrupted the meeting, spoke in a dim tone, using hackneyed ideological cliches. Other speakers tried to “ignite”.
Thus, the leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, threatened that in the event of dishonest elections, “we will not stay at home on the 19th. Deputy from Belgorod Anastasia Babikova assured the party that young people “are not afraid to go out into the streets to defend the truth and fight for justice.”
“Don’t be afraid of the provocations and lies of the cowards who hold the swinging throne,” Babikova urged.
Secretary of the Serpukhov district committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Volkov believes that Grudinin voters will have to defend their choice.
“The authorities will do anything. Many people tell me: if not Putin, then war. Putin should say on television: people, don’t worry, when Grudinin is elected on March 18, I will transfer power, and I will not, like my mentor Yeltsin, shoot at the people,” Volkov said.