Russian Communist leader warns of colour revolution threat
RIA-Novosti
Moscow Region, 28 March: The Russian Communist Party (CPRF) leader, Gennadiy Zyuganov, has urged not to minimize the threat of a colour revolution in Russia in the situation of the financial crisis, the implementation of which is a way to the country's demise.
"Western intelligence services and the liberal 'fifth column' in Russia have handy a plan for a so-called 'colour revolution', already tested in other countries, a plan to use people's discontent and resentment for bringing Russian 'yushchenkos' and 'saakashvilis' (allusion to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili) in Russia, Zyuganov said at the party's plenary session devoted to the CPRF policy in crisis.
According to him, so-called "liberal doctors", to whom he ascribes "the theorists and leaders of resistance" Mikhail Kasyanov and Garri Kasparov, "have already approached" the Communists.
"To this we replied plainly that this orange variant (allusion to the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine) does not suits us," Zyuganov told journalists.
He said that, in the crisis situation, pseudo-liberals propose to make 'mercenary policy' more radical and put the Russian economy under the control of transnational corporations, the International Monetary Fund and foreign banks.
"To defend their 'wrong cause', this group could stoop even to bringing foreign interventionists to the Russian territory," Zyuganov said. "It is clear that this is a way to the country's demise. That is why the liberals cannot get the people's support."