Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic

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Communist Party of the
Donetsk People's Republic
Коммунистическая партия
Донецкой Народной Республики
AbbreviationCPDPR (English)
КПДНР (Russian)
General Secretary Boris Litvinov
FounderBoris Litvinov
Founded8 October 2014 (2014-10-08)
Dissolved4 December 2022 (2022-12-04)
Split from Communist Party of Ukraine
Merged into Communist Party of the Russian Federation [1]
Headquarters Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic/Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
NewspaperVperyod [2]
Youth wing Komsomol [3]
Ideology
Political position Far-left
National affiliation Donetsk Republic (2014–2016)
Continental affiliation UCP–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
Flag of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic.svg
Website
kpdnr.su
wpered.su

  1. Russian:Интернациона́л, romanized: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) was 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.

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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,[ failed verification ] [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, following the annexation of the Donetsk People's Republic by the Russian Federation, 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.[ failed verification ] [11]

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