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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Only Lenin Unites the Left

26 January, 1999 - 00:00

By Vyacheslav YAKUBENKO, The Day

On January 21 representatives of the Communist Party, Union of Soviet Officers,
All-Ukrainian Union for the Rebirth of the USSR, and All-Ukrainian Union
of Workers again laid flowers at the monument to Lenin, marking the 75th
anniversary of his death.

Certainly both the Progressive and plain Socialists as well as the Peasant
Party also observed the anniversary in their own ways. The Leninist anniversaries
of November 7 and May Day are virtually all the current Left retains in
common. Despite their virtually identical ideologies, they seldom manage
to put up a common front. The main reason seems to be the personal grudges
of their various leaders. Now even the Progressive Socialists' mercurial
Natalia Vitrenko seems prepared to discuss a joint leftist presidential
candidate, but each caravan continues to set out on its own route. Moroz
has already been given the nod by the political council of his party, Symonenko
by various regional Communist organizations, and Vitrenko nominated herself
long ago.

Last Thursday at the base of Lenin's statue Petro Symonenko again reiterated
that his party still has not selected its presidential candidate. Perhaps
one could not say otherwise there. Lenin would not be pleased if he knew
how divided are his contemporary acolytes.

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