Duma deputy Anastasia Udaltsova proposes to close the ‘Yeltsin Center’ and remove Yeltsin’s name from the names of libraries, museums and other facilities.

The Duma deputy of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPFR) and the Left Front, Anastasia Udaltsova, has launched a broad public campaign to ‘de-eltsinise’ Russia, for which she proposes that citizens send a mass letter to the Duma at udaltsova@duma.gov.ru:

According to official information, a Yeltsin Center is scheduled to open in 2022 in Moscow’s Dolgorukov-Bobrinsky district, on Malaya Nikitskaya Street. Previously, in 2015, the Yeltsin Center was opened in Yekaterinburg. It should be remembered that the reign of President Boris Yeltsin is one of the most terrible pages in the history of our Motherland. Yeltsin was one of the main instigators of the destruction of the Soviet Union, which led to the total impoverishment of the population, bloody inter-ethnic conflicts (the conflict with Ukraine being a striking example), the destruction of a huge number of industrial and agricultural enterprises, and the colossal decline in all social spheres of our society.

As a result of liberal reforms during Yeltsin’s presidency, Russia suffered a demographic catastrophe, the so-called ‘natural’ population decline of 9.4 million people between 1992 and 2001, thousands of villages, towns and cities were wiped off the map.

However, despite all these terrible results of the Yeltsin period, hundreds of millions of rubles are allocated each year from the budget for the upkeep of the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, which means that the upkeep and maintenance of this center is done mainly at the expense of the taxpayers, i.e. you and me! At the same time, apart from the perverse praise of the Yeltsin period in our history, even in today’s difficult times for Russia, the Yeltsin Center is actively engaged in anti-Soviet and naturally anti-Russian activities. Ambassadors of hostile states hold meetings there and pro-Western personalities give lectures. In essence, a center promoting the ideas of nationalist treason now operates in Russia at the expense of the state, which is categorically unacceptable.

In view of all this, I call for parliamentary response measures to:

1. Block the opening of a branch of the ‘Yeltsin Center’ in Moscow.

2. Close the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, incorporating into the building a branch of the Russian History Museum or another cultural or social venue.

3. Removing Boris Yeltsin’s name from the names of state museums, libraries and other public and cultural facilities.

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Together with other communist deputies, Anastasia Udaltsova intends to present these citizens’ appeals in the form of deputies’ requests to the federal executive authorities, and various social and political events (street actions, public discussions, etc.) are planned in support of the initiative. It is time to clean Russia of Yeltsin’s filth. The name of Yeltsin must not disgrace our country!

Translated from LeftFront.