LPR and DPR have started from a genuine popular uprising as a reaction to Euromaidan coup. The wave of social explosion have pushed people with, well, more or less lack of consistent political ideology, to the leadership positions, and in first years most of the popular leaders have been assassinated (some expressed anti-oligarch views, even though there has never been a proper socialist movement), leaving only the likes of Igor Strelkov (who is a known fan of White movement and has long and deep history with Russia) in control. Additionally there’s, like, fishy election manipulation wrt. organized communist movements. Like, DPR’s communist party (ignoring the question of how communist they are) was banned from elections in 2018 by a backdated state decision of its dissolution in 2016 that nobody in the party knew about.
Like, the only way in which you can consider them any sort of “leftist” is that some forces use Soviet flags as cumsocks for bourgeoisie interests.
LPR and DPR have started from a genuine popular uprising as a reaction to Euromaidan coup. The wave of social explosion have pushed people with, well, more or less lack of consistent political ideology, to the leadership positions, and in first years most of the popular leaders have been assassinated (some expressed anti-oligarch views, even though there has never been a proper socialist movement), leaving only the likes of Igor Strelkov (who is a known fan of White movement and has long and deep history with Russia) in control. Additionally there’s, like, fishy election manipulation wrt. organized communist movements. Like, DPR’s communist party (ignoring the question of how communist they are) was banned from elections in 2018 by a backdated state decision of its dissolution in 2016 that nobody in the party knew about.
Like, the only way in which you can consider them any sort of “leftist” is that some forces use Soviet flags
as cumsocks for bourgeoisie interests.