On Red Square they demanded the resignation of the president

class struggle
Yesterday in the center of Moscow, activists of left-wing radical youth organizations held the traditional march "Anti-Capitalism 2004". The main event of the anti-capitalist march was an unauthorized demonstration of young radicals on Red Square demanding the resignation of Vladimir Putin. Together with the participants, Kommersant correspondent OLEG KASHIN became convinced that it is possible to hold a rally with impunity near the walls of the Kremlin.
The leaders of several small left-radical organizations came to the idea of the annual protest march “Anti-Capitalism” out of necessity: none of these movements alone is able to gather more than two dozen people on the street. Therefore, in 2001, the Revolutionary Komsomol of the Bolsheviks, the Vanguard of Red Youth (AKM), the National Bolshevik Party, the Russian Communist Youth Union, the Union of Communist Youth (SKM) and a dozen more radical organizations carried out the first "Anti-Capitalism" on a plan that has remained unchanged since then scheme: on the last Saturday of September, a mass excursion outside the city is organized (no one can really explain why they go there - after rallying for half an hour in some village near Moscow, the radicals peacefully return to Moscow), the next day, on Sunday, a procession from the Pure Ones ponds to the Kitay-Gorod metro station, and at the head of the procession is a column of the organization that received permission for the event. The most scandalous was “Anti-Capitalism-2002” - a column of National Bolsheviks marched through the city without permission and got into a fight with the police on Triumphal Square.
This year, the organization of “Anti-Capitalism” was taken over by the Youth Left Front, which is close to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which, in addition to the SCM (the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation), includes about ten organizations, including Russian anti-globalists led by Ilya Budrayskis and Trotskyists led by Boris Kagarlitsky. These two movements took upon themselves all organizational issues. The total number of march participants was about 200 people. And the main event of “Anti-Capitalism 2004” took place an hour before the official start of the action and not on Chistye Prudy, but on Red Square.
At 2 p.m., 50 AKM activists came there, led by the leader of this organization, Sergei Udaltsov. The activists walked through the Alexander Garden and Manezhnaya Square to GUM, where at this hour there are always dozens of excursion groups. Therefore, the policemen on duty in the square initially did not pay attention to the radicals. They lined up in a column, unfurled the red AKM flags and the “Putin resign” banner and went to the Mausoleum. “The Kremlin instead of Beslan!” the demonstrators shouted. “Beslan was born in the Kremlin! Russia without Putin!” The square was crowded, and tourists, mostly foreigners, happily took pictures in front of the column. A policeman standing at the Mausoleum, seeing an approaching crowd of young people, entered the Mausoleum and locked himself from the inside. A minute later, however, he returned and locked the Mausoleum again, now from the outside. Meanwhile, the “vanguardists” had already climbed over the chains of the Mausoleum’s fence, stretched out an anti-presidential banner and began scattering leaflets. The policeman either pushed them away, then called someone on the radio, or simply stood confused in the thick of the demonstrators. Finally, a patrol car with a police outfit arrived. The police began to push the protesters away from the Mausoleum, but the radicals themselves understood that it was time to leave, so there were no major clashes. Everything that happened was photographed and filmed by tourists who tightly surrounded the Mausoleum. However, several strong men in dark clothes also appeared and began to grab those filming and take away their cassettes and films. Some were detained and put into a police car. One of the detainees, released after the videotape was taken from him, told a Kommersant correspondent that the people in civilian clothes presented documents as employees of the Federal Security Service.
Meanwhile, the AKM column continued to move along Red Square, and it was easy to notice that the “vanguardists” did not know what to do next. After consulting, they went up to Lobnoye Mesto and staged a rally. Sergei Udaltsov gave a ten-minute speech about the need for the president’s resignation. Towards the end of the speech, a police Gazelle slowly drove up to the Execution Ground. The protesters, without waiting for the police to get out of the car, moved down Vasilievsky Spusk. The police began to catch the fleeing radicals. “Whoever doesn’t get tied up, we’ll meet at Chistye Prudy!” - Mr. Udaltsov shouted, running away to the Moscow River. One of the fleeing activists threw a banner “Putin resign.” The policeman chased the flying piece of fabric. He caught up, turned it around, read it, threw it on the ground and kicked it. By that time, the Kremlin no longer had Akaemovites left.
At Chistye Prudy, where Anti-Capitalism participants were passed through metal detectors to the Griboyedov monument, Mr. Udaltsov counted the losses. It turned out that on Vasilyevsky Spusk the police detained only 11 people: 6 activists and 5 passers-by. “They didn’t even take away the flags,” Mr. Udaltsov rejoiced. People from the columns of other organizations looked at him with poorly concealed envy. A representative of the youth wing of the Rodina party complained to journalists that his organization was not allowed to march in its convoy. “These Trotskyists say that they will make a revolution with revolutionary Tajiks and Chinese,” he said. “But they don’t need Russians!” Chanting “Our homeland is the USSR!”, the column, accompanied by a large number of police officers, moved towards “China Town”, where an hour-long rally took place. There were no more incidents.

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 179/P dated September 27, 2004, p. 6

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