Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

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The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is a "leftist" Russian political party, that is nothing of the sort. It holds 56 of the 450 seats in the State Duma[1]

The party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky is infamous for his scandalous xenophobic, hooray-patriotic speeches. Once he made a video address to George W. Bush condemning the Iraq War with a lot of expletives and anti-American threats thrown in, while drunk (later he claimed it was forged). Those PR stunts would likely cause international disasters if anyone was capable of taking him seriously.

For reasons best known to himself, Auberon Waugh became a fervent supporter of Zhirinovsky during the 1990s. In their song "Archives of Pain" from the same era, Manic Street Preachers advocated his execution (along with many others).

[edit] Positions

  • Ultra-nationalist
  • Annex Belarus
  • Pro death penalty
  • Protectionist
  • Abolition of "non-traditional" or "fanatical" religious groups (Islamic Fundamentalists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses)
  • State control of all agriculture
  • Anti-NATO, and anti-United States

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. This is the lower, popularly elected house of the Russian parliament
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