RIA Novosti. Russia
Jan 20 2007

BACK TO THE USSR, RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS SAY

Moscow, 20 January: Russian communists are planning to fight for the
restoration of the Soviet Union and are calling on the communist
parties of the former union republics to unite.

"We believe that our key task is to restore the ruined union
fatherland, and we shall continue to work energetically to work on
this task," the leader of the CPRF, Gennadiy Zyuganov, told a plenum
of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties-CPSU.

Representatives of the communist parties of Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia
and other former union republics came to the plenum, which was held
in the northeast of the capital.

Zyuganov spoke at length about the need for cooperation with these
republics. "Without the alliance of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and
all the fraternal republics which formed part of the union, we have
no historical perspective," Zyuganov declared.

The resolution adopted at the plenum points out that all the parties
formed on the territory of the former USSR which adhere to communist
views should join together. The main aim of the united parties should
be the fight for "Soviet people’s power, for socialist development of
the states of fraternal peoples and their unification into a union
state".