The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the CPRF, would be more accurately called the Russian Pensioners' Nationalist Party, or RPNP. On social issues the party is not much different from the American GOP. The party has recently congratulated the Russian government on banning "homosexual propaganda" for their crack down on LGBT rights. This is merely one example of how it is similar to the American religious right. They are also hostile to science (evolution in particular), taxes and are proudly "tough on crime" (AKA want to have some fun with capital punishment). Marx, who despised capital punishment, is surely rolling in his grave. Strangely for a party claiming to be Marxist, they also love Christianity; the leader has talked about the "spiritual aspects of communism" (Russian Orthodox Church) and would like to see church and state intertwined. They both blame "liberals" for all society's problems & that the media is out to get them. Even more strikingly similar is their wish to return to the 1950's (during Stalin's time for the CPRF, during the time of "family values" for the GOP).
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