Thread by @achillesmason

The #communist Far Left is poised to take over the reins of power in #Russia. If you thought #RussiaUkraineWar would lead to a Russian coup by the "liberal" forces, i.e. by the likes of @navalny or Khodorkovsky, you're wrong - and I will try to explain why in this 🧵... [1]

The moment that really started the #RussiaUkraineWar happened as early as 19 January, when the Communist Party of #Russia (@kprf) sent a request to recognize the breakaway #Donbass republics (LDPRs). This move was only reported in Russian language. [2]
rbc.ru/politics/19/01…

It wasn't Putin's "United Russia" party that kicked-off the military intervention in #Ukraine, it was the Russian communists - a political descendant of the all-powerful CPSU in the Soviet Union. This was largely ignored by the Western media... [3]

In large part thanks to the efforts of @navalny and his liberal movement in #Russia, major parties in the State Duma are considered stooges of Putin, existing merely to maintain a façade of political diversity. In the case of the #Communists, that is a deeply erroneous view. [4]

The #Russian #communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov, was an ever-present force in Russian politics since 1991, and maintains separate relationships with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Xi Jinping. [5]

If a coup d'état was to happen in #Russia, it is Xi's plan to install Zyuganov's communists in Putin's stead. The CPRF is close to CCP in its Stalinist-Maoist worldview, and would likely allow the Chinese state companies unfettered access to Russian lands and resources. [6]

It is not well outside the realms of probability; that the #Russian communists knowingly pushed #Putin to start the #RussiaUkraineWar, fully aware that this war would cripple Russia economically and bring about a military defeat at the hands of #Ukraine. [7]

#China likely pushed Zyuganov and his #communists to undertake this subterfuge against #Putin. The lack of Chinese support for Putin's war is telling: three Chinese banks refused #Russian advances to start a new SWIFT-like payment system together... [8]
formiche.net/2022/05/russia…

If the CPRF #communists were to unseat #Putin in the Kremlin, #China and Xi have everything to gain: energy, land, grain, and an arsenal made up of thousands of nukes. [9]

This is 100% the scenario under which #Lenin came to power in 1917. #Russia just lost a major European war, and was struggling to feed its own people. Communists then swooped the stage with three promises of "Bread, Peace, and Land." [10]

Communists know they can bring about Lenin's three promises out of retirement: the #Chinese will bring the "bread," and the U.S., #Ukraine and their allies will sign peace with anyone whose name is not "Vladimir Putin." [11]

This makes all the more sense, if viewed from the prism of the ongoing internal warfare between the #Russian #communists and the KGB - originating from as early as 1953, when Nikita Khrushchev cracked down on Stalin's internal apparatus dominated by the secret service. [12]

The #communist party largely kept the KGB in #Russia sidelined until 1982, when the KGB chief Yuri Andropov came to power. This "KGB renaissance" was very brief; however, as Gorbachev later erased all vestiges of the KGB power in U.S.S.R. [13]

In 1991, the KGB, along with the military, attempted to come back to power, but failed. But in 1996, another opportunity beckoned. The Russian communists, under #Zyuganov, were poised to make an election comeback, against the "liberal" Yeltsin. [14]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sovi…

Zyuganov garnered 41% of the #Russian vote in the run-off, losing out just as a new "unholy alliance" supported Yeltsin. This alliance was made up of the KGB leaders behind the 1991 coup attempt and the "oligarchs." [15]

Together, the KGB "leadership" and the oligarchs gave birth a new political force - Vladimir #Putin in 1999. Many of these same oligarchs are still by Putin's side in 2022, where others (like Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky) found themselves on the outs. [16]

Today, the #Russian communist party (@kprf) is poised to make another comeback, at a time when the public trust in the Russian leadership is waning. #China is working behind the scenes to make it happen. [15]
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