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Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov (; 2 October 1945, in Belaya Glina,
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– 15 January 2018, in
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in 1972. He worked as a
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in
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. Anpilov was very fluent in Spanish. In 1990, Anpilov was nominated as candidate for the Congress of People's Deputies and
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city Soviet. As a candidate, he was reported to have maintained links with the ultranationalist Pamyat movement. After the dissolution of the USSR, Anpilov became the leader of the movement Labour Russia. During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, he was one of the leaders of the anti-
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uprising. In 1999, his movement joined the coalition Stalin Bloc – For the USSR. In 2007 he took part in the Dissenters March organized to protest against president
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's policies. Anpilov was a well-known figure and had a certain popularity; sometimes he was also invited as a guest on TV shows. In the 2012 presidential election, he supported
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's candidacy.


Personal

Anpilov was fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and had worked in Latin America.


Personal Life

He had been married since 1975 to Vera Yemelyanova Anpilova. He had two children: a daughter, Anastasia, and a son, Sergey.


Death

Anpilov died in 2018. He had been in a coma for the last three days of his life after a
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.


Further reading

* Ostrovsky, Alexander (2014)
Расстрел «Белого дома». Чёрный октябрь 1993 (The shooting of the "White House". Black October 1993)
— М.: «Книжный мир», 2014. — 640 с. ISBN 978-5-8041-0637-0


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Labour Russia siteБиография Виктора Ивановича Анпилова
1945 births 2018 deaths People from Krasnodar Krai Soviet journalists Russian politicians Russian communists Anti-revisionists Antisemitism in Russia Neo-Stalinists Defenders of the White House (1993) Russian dissidents Russian nationalists Inmates of Lefortovo Prison Moscow State University alumni Communist Party of the Soviet Union members {{Russia-politician-stub