The Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic ( abbr. CPDPR; russian: Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики; КПДНР, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Donetskoy Narodnoy Respubliki, KPDNR) is a

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in the disputed Donetsk People's Republic, a

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that is de jure part of

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, led by Boris Litvinov, formerly the chairman of the

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. 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.

History

The CPDPR was founded on 8 October 2014. Boris Litvinov, who previously was the head of a regional branch of the

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in the

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,"Parliament" of terrorists of "DNR" led by a communist

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(24 July 2014)Communists of Donbass ask Zyuganov for protection
Gazeta.ru. 20 May 2016 was proclaimed chairman of the party. Litvinov headed the People's Council from July to October 2014. After his dismissal as chairman of the People's Council, rumors emerged that Litvinov had been briefly arrested, yet Litvinov himself denied them. Litvinov stated that the CPDPR would support the candidacy of

Alexander Zakharchenko Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko uk, Олекса́ндр Володи́мирович Заха́рченко, translit=Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Zakharchenko (26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018) was a Ukrainian separatist leader who was the he ...

, the first President of the Donetsk People's Republic, in the 2014 general election for the country's premiership. The CPDPR themselves were banned from participating in the elections because the party "made too many mistakes" in their submitted documents. According to some Russian media, the final party's lists were edited in

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. Selected members were allowed to be on the party list for the Donetsk Republic political organization. Three members of the CPDPR were elected to the People's Council: Boris Litvinov, Vadim Zaibert, and Nikolai Ragozin. Zaibert was later killed in action and not replaced, thus leaving only two members of the party in the People's Council. In 2015, the Leninist Communist Youth Union (Komsomol) of the party was founded, headed by First Secretary Vadim Popkov and Second Secretary Anton Saenko. 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. In 2022, the CPDNR became a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Program

The party's program is fully copied and is identical with the party's program of the banned

.Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic program
Vperyod.

References

{{Left-wing parties in Ukraine Banned communist parties in Ukraine Banned secessionist parties Organizations based in Donetsk Political parties in the Donetsk People's Republic Political parties established in 2014 Political parties disestablished in 2022 Russophilic parties Secessionist organizations in Europe

History

Program

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