Communist Party of the
Donetsk People's Republic
Коммунистическая партия
Донецкой Народной Республики
AbbreviationCPDPR (English)
КПДНР (Russian)
General SecretaryBoris Litvinov
FounderBoris Litvinov
Founded8 October 2014 (2014-10-08)
Dissolved4 December 2022 (2022-12-04)
Split fromCommunist Party of Ukraine
Merged intoCommunist Party of the Russian Federation[1]
HeadquartersDonetsk, Donetsk People's Republic/Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
NewspaperVperyod[2]
Youth wingKomsomol[3]
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationDonetsk Republic (2014–2016)
Continental affiliationUCP–CPSU (observer)
Colors  Red
Slogan"Workers of the world, unite!"
(Russian: "Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!")
"Peace! Labor! Socialism! Republic!"
(Russian: "Мир! Труд! Социализм! Республика!")
Anthem"The Internationale"[lower-alpha 1][4]
People's Council (2022)
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Party flag
Website
kpdnr.su
wpered.su
  1. ↑ Russian: Интернациона́л, tr. Internatsionál

The Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic (abbr. CPDPR; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики; КПДНР, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Donetskoy Narodnoy Respubliki, KPDNR) is a communist party in the disputed Donetsk People's Republic, a federal subject of Russia that is de jure part of Ukraine, led by Boris Litvinov, formerly the chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic.[5] It was a faction of the Donetsk Republic organization from 2014 to 2016. Since 2022, it has been a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

History

The CPDPR was founded on 8 October 2014. Boris Litvinov, who previously was the head of a regional branch of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the Kirovsky District, Donetsk,[6][7] was proclaimed chairman of the party. Litvinov headed the People's Council from July to October 2014.[7] After his dismissal as chairman of the People's Council, rumors emerged that Litvinov had been briefly arrested, yet Litvinov himself denied them.[7]

Litvinov stated that the CPDPR would support the candidacy of Alexander Zakharchenko, the first President of the Donetsk People's Republic, in the 2014 general election for the country's premiership.[5] The CPDPR themselves were banned from participating in the elections because the party "made too many mistakes" in their submitted documents.[8] According to some Russian media, the final party's lists were edited in Moscow.[7] Selected members were allowed to be on the party list for the Donetsk Republic political organization.[7] Three members of the CPDPR were elected to the People's Council: Boris Litvinov, Vadim Zaibert, and Nikolai Ragozin.[7] Zaibert was later killed in action and not replaced, thus leaving only two members of the party in the People's Council.[9]

In 2015, the Leninist Communist Youth Union (Komsomol) of the party was founded, headed by First Secretary Vadim Popkov and Second Secretary Anton Saenko.[3]

In 2016, Litvinov and Ragozin were expelled from the People's Council due to a "loss of confidence", thus leaving the party with no representatives.[7]

In 2022, the CPDNR became a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.[10]

Program

The party's program is fully copied and is identical with the party's program of the banned Communist Party of Ukraine.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://kprf.ru/party-live/cknews/212433.html В строю едином
  2. ↑ Vperyod. Official website
  3. 1 2 "Komsomol is our future!". wpered.su. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  4. ↑ A. V. Lunacharskiy (ed.). "The International (in Russian)". Fundamental'naya Elektronnaya Biblioteka.
  5. 1 2 "Communist Party created in Donetsk People's Republic". TASS. 8 October 2014.
  6. ↑ (in Ukrainian) "Parliament" of terrorists of "DNR" led by a communist, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 July 2014)
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Communists of Donbass ask Zyuganov for protection. Gazeta.ru. 20 May 2016
  8. ↑ "Eastern Ukraine's Fake State Is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister". Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Donetsk: The Third Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of the DNR Took Place". Left Russia. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  10. ↑ https://kprf.ru/party-live/cknews/212433.html В строю едином
  11. ↑ Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic program. Vperyod.
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