(9 Dec 1995) T/I: 10:33:22
Despite the uncertainty surrounding Russia's parliamentary elections, one result seems clear: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will garner most votes on December 17. The party's solid base of support lies with the pensioner generation, fed up with runaway inflation and crime and longing for the "good old days" when all the basics were guaranteed. Distribution of campaign propaganda is mainly taking place on the factory floor and in the village kitchen.
SHOWS:
RUSSIA RECENT
Nov 95
GV Red Square
WS Lenin Mausoleum
Communist leader Gennady ZYUGANOV shaking hands with famous
astronaut Viktor Sevastianov
Others on Red Square during celebration of October Revolution
CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
WS ZYUGANOV with campaign company,
ZYUGANOV SPEAKING in Russian: "We are for peace, against civil
war, for honest labor, against parasites, for people's power,
against power to the mafia, for honour and dignity for our state.
Our country has suffered a lot. It has resisted many invasions,
and now it's in a very difficult state."
Dec 95:
Communist Party campaign workers at their headquarters in Moscow
RUZA REGION (50 kms outside Moscow) Nov 95:
Collective farm
Wooden village house
Farm scenes
WS meeting held by local Communist candidate Vyacheslav Maslakov
with farmers
MS inside kitchen of collective farmers, drinking tea
TWO FARMERS SPEAKING in Russian: "We'll vote for Maslakov, because
we know him, already for 14 years we know him. We trust him. Yeah,
we trust him. He's a good person."
Nov 95: RUSSIAN DUMA
GVs of Duma in session
ZYUGANOV SPEAKING in russian: "It's a new time, new situation, new
conditions. the KPSS [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] was a
system of management, and not just a party, and to break it was a
crime. We should have reformed it, and all the party wanted that.
But they broke it... We understand the necessity a multi-layered
economy, the need for economic competition, and the necessity of a
pluralistic political system."
Cutaway photographers
Nov 95: VLADIMIR SEMAGO, Communist Party Duma deputy and
millionaire businessman sitting in exclusive dinner club he owns,
SPEAKING in English: "The main idea of our programme is that we
have to have two sectors, main sectors of economy, private and
state. That is the thing which will be very very attractive to
many people. Cutaway of painting of Tsars
SPEAKING in English: "I have made plenty of meetings during this
election campaign with very poor people, and they're thinking
about me like a real Communist. Because I have to explain them,
that member of the Communist party, it's not necessary to be
unemployment, not necessary to be absolutely hungry, not necessary
to live in a -- how you say -- basement floor of the living house,
and etc. etc. etc. The Communist is a man, or woman, who are
thinking about the people, how to improve their life."
STREET SELLERS
Old ladies selling bread and magazines on the street
Nov 95 anniversary of October Revolution: MS woman yelling and
gesticulating, in Russian: "Stability, Stability, Stabiltity, and
every day I go to the store, and bread is more and more
expensive!"
MS people marching, chanting "Lenin, Motherland, Socialism! Lenin,
Motherland, Socialism!"
Statue of Karl Marx in background
Zyuganov in fur hat, smiling, holding flowers
Huge crowd with red flags, Bolshoi Theatre, central Moscow
Red flag flying over Red Square
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