Stalin Bloc – For the USSR

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Stalin Bloc – For the USSR
Сталинский блок – За СССР
LeaderYevgeny Dzhugashvili
Viktor Anpilov
Stanislav Terekhov
FoundersViktor Anpilov
Stanislav Terekhov
FoundedOctober 2, 1997 (1997-10-02)
RegisteredNovember 3, 1999 (1999-11-03)
DissolvedDecember 19, 1999 (1999-12-19)
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
NewspaperMolniya (Lightning)
Trudovaya Rossiya (Labour Russia)
Youth wingPeople's Patriotic Youth Union
IdeologyCommunism
Stalinism
Marxism-Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Soviet patriotism
National Communism
Political positionFar-left
Member partiesLabour Russia
Union of Officers
Union (until 09.1999)
Stalin Bloc
National Bolshevik Party (until 01.1999)
Colours  Red
Slogan"For our Soviet homeland!"
(Russian: "За нашу советскую родину!")
AnthemThe Internationale
Party flag

The Stalin Bloc – For the USSR (Russian: Сталинский блок – За СССР, romanizedStalinskiy blok – Za SSSR), known before January 1999 as the Front of the Working People, Army and Youth for the USSR (Russian: Фронт трудового народа, армии и молодежи за СССР; ФТР, romanizedFront trudovogo naroda, armii i molodezhi za SSSR, abbr. FTR),[1] was a coalition of communist political parties in Russia running together for the 1999 elections of the State Duma.

This coalition was composed by many small radical political parties including "Labour Russia" led by Viktor Anpilov, Union of Officers led by Stanislav Terekhov, "Union" led by G.I. Tikhonov, the Peoples Patriotic Union of Youth led by I.O. Maliarov, Union of Workers of Moscow, Bolshevik Platform CPSU, All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks, Russian Association of Miners Invalids, Congress of Soviet Women, All Union Society for studying the legacy of Stalin and the Vanguard of Red Youth.

Aside from the leaders of the above movements, the Stalin Bloc included Joseph Stalin's well-known grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, a retired air force colonel.

The Bloc obtained 0.61% and 404,274 votes in the 1999 Duma Election.

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  1. ^ http://www.panorama.ru/works/vybory/party/stalin.html СТАЛИНСКИЙ БЛОК - ЗА СССР

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