G.A. Zyuganov: “Our main allies oppose neocolonialism and share the ideals of Soviet friendship”
17.01.2025
On January 14, before the plenary session of the State Duma, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G.A. Zyuganov spoke to journalists.
G.A. Zyuganov:
— Good afternoon. I congratulate everyone on the New Year that has arrived according to all chronological calculations. In China, they will also celebrate the Chinese New Year very soon. On this day, more than 2 thousand people were invited to the Chinese embassy in Moscow, including deputies of our faction.
Our party had a rest for the first two days after the New Year. And then, from January 3, we held all the consultations, meetings, interviews, and heard the reports of our regional leaders. I would like to thank all our deputy activists who responsibly approached the decisions taken at the single party meeting at the end of December: we summed up the results of 2024 and defined our plans for 2025.
Event number one in 2024 is the fight for peace, the fight against fascism, Nazism and Banderaism. This year we must worthily celebrate the 80th anniversary of our Victory over fascist Germany and militaristic Japan.
We fully approve and support the statement adopted by the CIS leaders. We absolutely agree with President V.V. Putin, who declared 2025 the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland at the State Council. We believe that our Victory Program, with which we went to the presidential and local elections, which the leaders of our team, headed by N.M. Kharitonov, carried through all regions, is extremely relevant.
We insisted that maximum attention be paid to the problem of education and health care, and the fight against demographic costs.
Last year, our country for the first time showed a birth rate per month of less than 100 thousand people. As a result, the population of Russia decreased by another 600 thousand people.
The State Council adopted a program based on ten of our proposals and eight laws, which our faction had previously presented at State Duma meetings. The United Russia party has not yet adopted these decisions, but we will persistently implement them. I believe that these decisions should be adopted by the anniversary of our Victory. Because they will ensure our future victories. I believe that at least 200 million people should live in the vast expanses of our country, and not 146 million, as is the case now.
Support for large families and the new generation is, first of all, high-quality education, upbringing and science. Yesterday, the State Council decided to hold detailed parliamentary hearings on the essence of the law that we introduced long ago. This is education for all, doubling the funding of science, education and the upbringing process.
In this regard, the issue of children's recreation is extremely acute. Today, this issue was raised at a meeting of our faction by deputy N.A. Ostanina. The fact is that all health resorts in the south of our country are in an extremely difficult situation. And, first of all, children's health resorts.
You see the fire raging. It's not just Hollywood that's burning. It's the liberal dream of planetary domination that led to this terrible upheaval.
And here in the South there was an accident that led to the pollution of the Black Sea and almost the entire Black Sea coastline - the culprits are the "remnants of the Yeltsin era" who operate old "troughs" that are 50-60 years old, without observing basic safety standards.
The carelessness with which the executive branch treated this accident is astounding: the President was even forced to hold a meeting of the Russian Government, where he urgently ordered the creation of a headquarters that would be obliged to deal with this problem. It is necessary to prepare for the organization of children's summer vacations today, and we will do everything to ensure that our children have a full vacation.
The financial and economic block, unfortunately, continues the old direction: “burps” with an increase in the key rate to 21%, monetization at 53%, devaluation of the ruble by 80% give an absolutely negative result in all sectors of the economy.
We believe that the program prepared by V. I. Kashin, N. V. Kolomeitsev, N. M. Kharitonov and our entire team on food security should be considered first among the 14 priority laws. And these laws will be the main ones and will allow us to form a development budget that will be 10 trillion rubles more than the budget approved by United Russia.
From a security point of view, we consider support for the SVO as our main task. I must report to you that during the holidays we sent more than 200 thousand gifts to the front: from trenches and hospitals to boarding schools, schools and work collectives. I want to thank Nikolai Kolomeitsev and all the communists from the North Caucasus region, who sent several additional vehicles in recent days.
I welcome it when leaders and ministers help children in difficult times. But at the same time, Kazbek Taysayev with our large team visited all the teams in 4 regions during the week, handing out thousands of gifts - I think this is a real reason to show the hero of Donbass, who conscientiously carries out the instructions of our faction.
The media keeps saying: "Trump, Trump, Trump...", but Donald Trump, even before taking office, has already turned everyone upside down, including Europe. I have written and spoken about this for a long time: as long as oligarchic imperialist capitalism exists, world wars are inevitable. Read the works of V.I. Lenin and see what the essence of Lenin-Stalin modernization is. I suggest that this unique experience be carefully studied, first of all, by United Russia, the Russian leadership and the General Staff. If you want to win, triple your forces, if you want to attack, quadruple your capabilities, if you want to suffer the least losses, triple the allocations for science and advanced technologies.
Our team has visited all leading teams, enterprises and the front line, we thank the soldiers and officers who fight bravely and with dignity. We have helped and will help them: we have sent 132 convoys, the 133rd convoy will go on January 30, 2025. We have received 22 thousand children from Donbass in the Moscow region "Snegiry" and have already approved a program for this year for 2.5 thousand - I think this is extremely important work.
Only naive and narrow-minded people can think that Trump will come tomorrow and peace will come the day after tomorrow. Trump has already made public his program for creating an American empire - James Monroe envied him, who once declared that America is where the US will dominate. And nothing has changed over the centuries: Greenland will be bought, and the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the American Gulf.
The question is different: against whom are the Americans doing all this? This is being done to strengthen the power of American capital, in order to de-energize and "bend" Europe. They have already declared China their main target. And they understand perfectly well that Russia is a key power on the Eurasian continent and will do everything to weaken us.
V.V. Putin said long ago that there is no way back, that capitalism has reached a dead end. And the tragedy is that United Russia has been pushing itself in this dead end for three years, without drawing any conclusions from the great Soviet era, or from the need to return Stalingrad to its real name, and not to block the Lenin Mausoleum, and to disperse this "snake pit" - the Yeltsin Center, and to move forward with a completely meaningful, clear and precise program. Our newspapers Pravda and Sovetskaya Rossiya write about this program in detail. We even mentioned it in our Christmas address. Pay attention to the inspired faces and how this manifests itself among people.
If you read Putin's speeches at the Valdai Forum and BRICS again, you will understand that all traditional values are connected, first of all, with culture, education, language, social justice, a decent life and collectivism. It was on these foundations that the great Soviet power was built, which ensured our Victory in May 1945.
We are obliged to win the Victory today. We will be respected only when we are strong, smart and successful. Our party and our patriotic allies are putting forward a program that corresponds to these goals, and we look to the future with confidence.
We are organizing a number of major events in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory, including an international forum dedicated to the fight against fascism and Nazism, in which about a hundred countries will participate. Together with our Chinese partners, we will sign a new memorandum for the coming years, and in September of this year we will hold a ceremonial meeting in the Far East, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese militarism.
We will make every effort to strengthen ties with our traditional allies. It is no coincidence that Mishustin visited Vietnam, where we not only signed agreements with the Vietnamese Communist Party, but also established strong and trusting relations, which we continue to develop. Volodin has just returned from Venezuela, with Daniel Ortega and Miguel Diaz-Canel by his side. I am sure that this is a real opportunity to strengthen our geopolitical positions.
I believe that today we can only rely on our friends and allies. Our main allies are those who share the ideals of friendship and oppose neocolonialism. The Soviet Union demonstrated success in the first stage. I hope that modern Russia, having chosen a worthy path, will continue this glorious tradition of victories.
The year 2025 will be decisive for our future prospects, including the 2026 elections. Our team on Thursday will approve the program and personnel that will carry out this work for the next two years under the leadership of Afonin, Novikov, Kalashnikov, Taysayev and the young team that works with me.
G.A. Zyuganov: “Our main allies oppose neocolonialism and share the ideals of Soviet friendship”
17.01.2025
On January 14, before the plenary session of the State Duma, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G.A. Zyuganov spoke to journalists.
G.A. Zyuganov:
— Good afternoon. I congratulate everyone on the New Year that has arrived according to all chronological calculations. In China, they will also celebrate the Chinese New Year very soon. On this day, more than 2 thousand people were invited to the Chinese embassy in Moscow, including deputies of our faction.
Our party had a rest for the first two days after the New Year. And then, from January 3, we held all the consultations, meetings, interviews, and heard the reports of our regional leaders. I would like to thank all our deputy activists who responsibly approached the decisions taken at the single party meeting at the end of December: we summed up the results of 2024 and defined our plans for 2025.
Event number one in 2024 is the fight for peace, the fight against fascism, Nazism and Banderaism. This year we must worthily celebrate the 80th anniversary of our Victory over fascist Germany and militaristic Japan.
We fully approve and support the statement adopted by the CIS leaders. We absolutely agree with President V.V. Putin, who declared 2025 the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland at the State Council. We believe that our Victory Program, with which we went to the presidential and local elections, which the leaders of our team, headed by N.M. Kharitonov, carried through all regions, is extremely relevant.
We insisted that maximum attention be paid to the problem of education and health care, and the fight against demographic costs.
Last year, our country for the first time showed a birth rate per month of less than 100 thousand people. As a result, the population of Russia decreased by another 600 thousand people.
The State Council adopted a program based on ten of our proposals and eight laws, which our faction had previously presented at State Duma meetings. The United Russia party has not yet adopted these decisions, but we will persistently implement them. I believe that these decisions should be adopted by the anniversary of our Victory. Because they will ensure our future victories. I believe that at least 200 million people should live in the vast expanses of our country, and not 146 million, as is the case now.
Support for large families and the new generation is, first of all, high-quality education, upbringing and science. Yesterday, the State Council decided to hold detailed parliamentary hearings on the essence of the law that we introduced long ago. This is education for all, doubling the funding of science, education and the upbringing process.
In this regard, the issue of children's recreation is extremely acute. Today, this issue was raised at a meeting of our faction by deputy N.A. Ostanina. The fact is that all health resorts in the south of our country are in an extremely difficult situation. And, first of all, children's health resorts.
You see the fire raging. It's not just Hollywood that's burning. It's the liberal dream of planetary domination that led to this terrible upheaval.
And here in the South there was an accident that led to the pollution of the Black Sea and almost the entire Black Sea coastline - the culprits are the "remnants of the Yeltsin era" who operate old "troughs" that are 50-60 years old, without observing basic safety standards.
The carelessness with which the executive branch treated this accident is astounding: the President was even forced to hold a meeting of the Russian Government, where he urgently ordered the creation of a headquarters that would be obliged to deal with this problem. It is necessary to prepare for the organization of children's summer vacations today, and we will do everything to ensure that our children have a full vacation.
The financial and economic block, unfortunately, continues the old direction: “burps” with an increase in the key rate to 21%, monetization at 53%, devaluation of the ruble by 80% give an absolutely negative result in all sectors of the economy.
We believe that the program prepared by V. I. Kashin, N. V. Kolomeitsev, N. M. Kharitonov and our entire team on food security should be considered first among the 14 priority laws. And these laws will be the main ones and will allow us to form a development budget that will be 10 trillion rubles more than the budget approved by United Russia.
From a security point of view, we consider support for the SVO as our main task. I must report to you that during the holidays we sent more than 200 thousand gifts to the front: from trenches and hospitals to boarding schools, schools and work collectives. I want to thank Nikolai Kolomeitsev and all the communists from the North Caucasus region, who sent several additional vehicles in recent days.
I welcome it when leaders and ministers help children in difficult times. But at the same time, Kazbek Taysayev with our large team visited all the teams in 4 regions during the week, handing out thousands of gifts - I think this is a real reason to show the hero of Donbass, who conscientiously carries out the instructions of our faction.
The media keeps saying: "Trump, Trump, Trump...", but Donald Trump, even before taking office, has already turned everyone upside down, including Europe. I have written and spoken about this for a long time: as long as oligarchic imperialist capitalism exists, world wars are inevitable. Read the works of V.I. Lenin and see what the essence of Lenin-Stalin modernization is. I suggest that this unique experience be carefully studied, first of all, by United Russia, the Russian leadership and the General Staff. If you want to win, triple your forces, if you want to attack, quadruple your capabilities, if you want to suffer the least losses, triple the allocations for science and advanced technologies.
Our team has visited all leading teams, enterprises and the front line, we thank the soldiers and officers who fight bravely and with dignity. We have helped and will help them: we have sent 132 convoys, the 133rd convoy will go on January 30, 2025. We have received 22 thousand children from Donbass in the Moscow region "Snegiry" and have already approved a program for this year for 2.5 thousand - I think this is extremely important work.
Only naive and narrow-minded people can think that Trump will come tomorrow and peace will come the day after tomorrow. Trump has already made public his program for creating an American empire - James Monroe envied him, who once declared that America is where the US will dominate. And nothing has changed over the centuries: Greenland will be bought, and the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the American Gulf.
The question is different: against whom are the Americans doing all this? This is being done to strengthen the power of American capital, in order to de-energize and "bend" Europe. They have already declared China their main target. And they understand perfectly well that Russia is a key power on the Eurasian continent and will do everything to weaken us.
V.V. Putin said long ago that there is no way back, that capitalism has reached a dead end. And the tragedy is that United Russia has been pushing itself in this dead end for three years, without drawing any conclusions from the great Soviet era, or from the need to return Stalingrad to its real name, and not to block the Lenin Mausoleum, and to disperse this "snake pit" - the Yeltsin Center, and to move forward with a completely meaningful, clear and precise program. Our newspapers Pravda and Sovetskaya Rossiya write about this program in detail. We even mentioned it in our Christmas address. Pay attention to the inspired faces and how this manifests itself among people.
If you read Putin's speeches at the Valdai Forum and BRICS again, you will understand that all traditional values are connected, first of all, with culture, education, language, social justice, a decent life and collectivism. It was on these foundations that the great Soviet power was built, which ensured our Victory in May 1945.
We are obliged to win the Victory today. We will be respected only when we are strong, smart and successful. Our party and our patriotic allies are putting forward a program that corresponds to these goals, and we look to the future with confidence.
We are organizing a number of major events in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory, including an international forum dedicated to the fight against fascism and Nazism, in which about a hundred countries will participate. Together with our Chinese partners, we will sign a new memorandum for the coming years, and in September of this year we will hold a ceremonial meeting in the Far East, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese militarism.
We will make every effort to strengthen ties with our traditional allies. It is no coincidence that Mishustin visited Vietnam, where we not only signed agreements with the Vietnamese Communist Party, but also established strong and trusting relations, which we continue to develop. Volodin has just returned from Venezuela, with Daniel Ortega and Miguel Diaz-Canel by his side. I am sure that this is a real opportunity to strengthen our geopolitical positions.
I believe that today we can only rely on our friends and allies. Our main allies are those who share the ideals of friendship and oppose neocolonialism. The Soviet Union demonstrated success in the first stage. I hope that modern Russia, having chosen a worthy path, will continue this glorious tradition of victories.
The year 2025 will be decisive for our future prospects, including the 2026 elections. Our team on Thursday will approve the program and personnel that will carry out this work for the next two years under the leadership of Afonin, Novikov, Kalashnikov, Taysayev and the young team that works with me.