Final Phase Backgrounder: Russia’s putative ruler meets Communist Party boss Zyuganov; Medvedev: “We are in touch with each other on a regular basis”

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Pictured above: Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov (center) pays his respects to party founder Vladimir Lenin at his mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow on April 22, 2009, the 138th anniversary of Lenin's birth. Party vice chairman Ivan Melnikov is standing on Zyuganov's right. A professor at Moscow State University, Melnikov is also chairman of the Russian State Duma's Education Committee, which means an open communist is guiding the education of Russia's youth.

That the putative rulers of Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are in reality merely frontmen for the continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union, otherwise known as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was made evident yet again when Medvedev consulted with CPRF Chairman Gennady Zyuganov at Medvedev’s Barvikha residence outside Moscow, on May 12.

The text of Medvedev’s speech to the CPRF delegation is posted at the Kremlin website. Noteworthy comments that reveal a unity of ideology and purpose between Russia’s potemkin politicians and the secretly governing Communist Party apparatus are boldfaced below. Most revealing is Medvedev’s admission: “I have consulted from time to time with Mr. Zyuganov on this subject and we are in touch with each other on a regular basis.” Kremlin-friendly journalists were initially present at the meeting but then Medvedev announced their departure with the obvious intent of pursuing a “closed door” strategy session: “We will spend some time with the media so that they know what we're talking about, what we're discussing, and then we'll send them away.”

The full text of the May 12 Medvedev-Zyuganov encounter follows:

We continue the tradition of meeting with our major parties represented in the parliament. Today I am meeting with members of the Communist Party.

The agenda is wide open, as Mr. Zyuganov agreed when we spoke. So I don't have anything earth shattering to announce. First and foremost I would of course like to thank our colleagues in the Communist Party for their active involvement in the foreign policy area. The Communist Party is the opposition party and it is very critical concerning many aspects of modern life: both its political aspects and the performance of public institutions.

Nevertheless in my opinion it is very important that we coordinate our efforts to further the foreign policy interests of our country and ensure its security. This is done in a range of areas. Here we have had almost no disagreements in formulating a coherent and unified position for the benefit of our nation.

I have consulted from time to time with Mr Zyuganov on this subject and we are in touch with each other on a regular basis. I am in touch with other colleagues as well. So in my opinion this is an extremely important aspect of our cooperation.

Concerning other issues, of course there are subjects on which we don't see eye to eye. In particular, there is the question of how to deal with the current [financial] crisis. The Communist Party has its own view of the situation. No doubt that is a good thing, because if we all saw things the same way then the results of our respective efforts would be the same.

It is to be expected that there are points of view that differ from those of the President and the Government Cabinet concerning how our economic life should develop, how to get out of this crisis. Especially since some of your suggestions concerning war veterans, or how certain social issues might be addressed, are in so many ways similar to my own feelings, I am naturally ready to discuss your proposals on these issues, because only by engaging in such discussions can we come up with reasonable solutions. We have done this sort of thing before, and I would like to see it continue.

There are a number of policy initiatives, a number of policy decisions that also have to go through the crucible of the State Duma. The various parliamentary parties and factions have different views on these, including the Communist Party; however, I would also like to thank you for your participation in the critical discussion of these initiatives. In my view this has ultimately helped the Duma to come up with measures that are more precise, more sound, and more interesting.

By the way, I would like to inform you that today I will be signing the law On Guaranteeing Equal Coverage of the Activities of Parliamentary Parties on State Television and Radio Channels. The State Duma worked on this and I know that the Communist Party had its own position on it as well. Nevertheless, I believe that this law will be an important guarantee of the presence of opposition forces and parties in the electronic media. This is an important area in which we have been working.

Actually, that is probably all I want to say to launch our conversation. Now of course the floor is yours, Mr Zyuganov. As the leader you go first. We will spend some time with the media so that they know what we're talking about, what we're discussing, and then we'll send them away.

From this unimpeachable source, it is therefore evident that a line of control extends from the “non-ruling” Communist Party of the Russian Federation/Soviet Union to the country’s “ex”-communist government leaders. News like this provides the hard facts that validate KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn’s 25-year-old prediction that the collapse of Soviet communism was a long-range deception designed to disarm the West, morally and militarily, prior to conquest, either by convergence or nuclear blackmail.

Although the Russian head of state addressed his communist guests as “dear colleagues,” it should be remembered that Medvedev is a Soviet Komsomol graduate and lackey of KGB-communist dictator Putin. When Nicaragua’s past/present Marxist dictator Daniel Ortega visited Moscow last December, for the first time since the Cold War, Medvedev and Ortega referred to the other as “comrade.” When Medvedev and US President Barack Hussein Obama (a possible Soviet mole) rubbed elbows for the first time at the G20 summit in London last month, the former referred to the latter as "my new comrade."

Pictured here: Brainwashing Russian youth with communism: CPRF Chairman Zyuganov recognizes accomplishments of party's Young Pioneers.

Beyond Medvedev’s introductory speech, in which he refers to the Communist Party’s participation in the formation of foreign policy and national security stances, we can only speculate on the specific topics broached at his meeting with Zyuganov.

Perhaps Medvedev and Zyuganov discussed Putin’s concurrent visit to Tokyo, where the government of Prime Minister Taro Aso is urging a settlement over the Kuril Islands dispute. Technically, Russia and Japan have been in a state of war since 1945, when Soviet troops seized and occupied the four southern Kuril Islands. “This peace treaty can only be done in a way that will meet the national interests of the Russian Federation,” Putin, without mincing words, told reporters, adding: “The content of a peace treaty will be a focus of future bilateral negotiations.”

Putin revealed on Tuesday, when he began his state visit to Japan, that Medvedev will discuss territorial issues and a formal peace treaty with Aso at the upcoming G8 summit in Italy. It should be pointed out that Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s center-right prime minister, is a close friend of Putin and a staunch advocate of Russia’s merger with the European Union (or, more accurately, the EU’s absorption into the 21^st-century Communist Bloc). By forcing a peace treaty on Japan “that will meet the national interests of the Russian Federation,” the Soviet strategists can proceed to woo Tokyo away from its well-established military alliance with Washington.

Perhaps the Russian president and the Communist Party chairman also discussed the Russian Security Council’s new “Arctic zone” policy, which Medvedev signed off on that very day. The new Kremlin policy document, which is effective until 2020, identifies Russia’s Arctic region as “a national strategic resource base capable of fulfilling the socio-economic tasks associated with national growth.” It also refers to the deployment of armed forces in the Arctic that are “capable of ensuring security under various military and political circumstances.” The secretary of the Russian Security Council is former Federal Security Service (FSB/KGB) boss Nikolai Patrushev.

In a previous post we reported on Russia’s proposal to organize a new Arctic Group of Forces to counter the influence of other polar states, namely, the USA (Alaska), Canada, Norway, and Denmark (Greenland). The Russian Navy has already been deployed to the seas around Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, where the Soviets maintain a mining settlement to this day. After meeting last week with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State Clinton admitted that control over and exploitation of the Arctic seabed is one of the areas on the expanding US-Russian agenda. “We think it is in our interest to cooperate and it is in the interest of the world that the United States and Russia do so,” Clinton stated.

Perhaps, too, Medvedev and Zyuganov discussed the manufactured conflict between Russia and Georgia, a conflict that is providing Moscow with a pretext to attack the West over the issue of “NATO expansionism” in the “former” Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. On Monday Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili--a US-educated lawyer who began his political career under the tutelage of "former" Georgian Communist Party boss Eduard Shevardnadze--met opposition leaders with the intent of finding a compromise to end anti-government protests that began on April 9.

The meeting took place in the Interior Ministry building, behind closed doors. After the meeting, Salome Zurabishvili, leader of the Path of Georgia party, informed reporters: “During the so-called negotiations, Saakashvili alleged that I was a GRU [Russian military intelligence] agent, that Nino Burdzhanadze [former parliament speaker, who now heads Democratic Movement-United Georgia] was receiving money from Russia.” Zurabishvili related that she challenged Saakashvili to produce any facts to substantiate his allegations. She then threatened to continue the protests outside the state television station until the president resigns.

Perhaps the Russian president and the Communist Party chairman, furthermore, discussed Moscow’s proposed European security treaty that would unite the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in one framework. “A new document should be drafted to ensure security in Europe and it should not be aimed against NATO," Medvedev explained to Rossiya TV channel, in an interview to be aired on Saturday, May 16. Alluding to the Cold War as “hard history lessons of the 20^th century,” he continued:

The existing set of European security institutions was created in the 1970s and has become obsolete. Unfortunately, security in Europe is not improving... NATO is becoming larger, while security is being split into fragments. We cannot accept this approach [NATO expansion], and we will react to it.

An efficient mechanism of European security should involve all supranational organizations on the continent, such as NATO, the European Union, the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

We are simply striving for a new level of security for our country, for our people, considering the hard history lessons of the 20th century.

Medvedev first floated the idea of a new European security treaty in Berlin last June. The merger of EU/NATO and CIS/CSTO into one gargantuan political-military structure, of course, is the fulfillment of Vladimir Lenin’s dream of a worldwide federation of communist states. Medvedev, Putin, Zyuganov, Mikhail Gorbachev—who promoted the concept of a “Common European Home” from the Atlantic to the Urals and whom Medvedev lauded on the occasion of the roving statesman’s last birthday—are faithfully carrying out the objectives of the Soviet Union’s founder. Behind them all lurks Oleg (“Man in the Shadows”) Shenin, former first secretary of the “old” CPSU Central Committee and ringleader of the potemkin anti-Gorbachevist coup of 1991.

Lastly, perhaps Medvedev and Zyuganov discussed the next summit of leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) states, to take place in Yekaterinburg from June 15 to16. The SCO represents another stepping stone—along with the EU, CIS, CSTO, the United Nations, and other regional supranational bodies like the African Union and the Union of South American Nations—along Lenin’s path toward world government or, to use a term favored by the communist-friendly Council on Foreign Relations, “global governance.”

On Friday the Russian president, still entertaining “guests” at his Barvikha residence, received the SCO foreign ministers to hammer out the agenda for the June shindig. “As far as I understand, today you have finally put in the full form the documents that will be considered in Yekaterinburg,” he said, adding: “It can be said that the preparation for the summit has gained its full form. Foreign and defense ministers always meet before meetings of leaders.” Issues that will be considered at the SCO leaders’ summit will be the organization’s development and the consolidation of its authority over member states. SCO interior ministers and heads of security councils and counter-narcotics departments will also converge before the summit.

The pending mini-summit of counter-narcotics chiefs from the “former” Soviet republics should be analyzed in the light of the Communist Bloc’s five-decade-old narco-subversion plot against the West. These men will pretend to aid the “war on drugs” when, in fact, they are facilitating the “drugging of America and the West,” to quote the subtitle of Joseph Douglass’ 1990 book Red Cocaine.

After meeting at Barvikha, Foreign Minister Lavrov revealed that the SCO foreign ministers agreed to grant the status of dialogue partner to Belarus and Sri Lanka. “Many countries have shown the striving to interact with the SCO, so we've worked out a special status of partner in the dialogue with the SCO. Today, we've agreed to recommend to the heads of states, who will gather in Yekaterinburg on June 15-16, to grant such a status to Belarus and Sri Lanka.” Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is an unreformed communist who pines for the good ol’ days of Soviet glory, while war-wracked Sri Lanka labors under a center-left-communist government, the United People's Freedom Alliance.