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Instead of an obituary: a person-party
This text was written in 2017 for one magazine now blocked in Russia. Now there is no Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and there is something to remember: aggressiveness, anger, and provocative speeches. Nevertheless, he was the most vivid system politician of the Russian Federation. And what is still strange: nothing special has changed in his history over the past five years. It was as if he had already frozen then, fell into a political one, fell out of reality: modern Russia does not need bright politicians. Even to the posts of full -time clowns.
At the XXX Congress of the LDPR, held in Moscow in early February 2017, Vladimir Zhirinovsky was once again re -elected by the chairman of the party. The congress is the pre -prying, on April 18, the oldest political party in Russia marks 25 years. Although its party began its path even earlier, in 1989, then it was called the LDPSS (the liberal-democratic party of the Soviet Union). Zhirinovsky also announced his intention to participate in the 2018 presidential election. And at the congress, the composition of the Supreme Council of the LDPR was completely updated. But this is just not important and not interesting to anyone, except, except, except, of members of the Supreme Council - no one remembers the names of Zhirinovsky's associates. The party and Zhirinovsky are not even twin brothers. Zhirinovsky - this is the party.
In the program “Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov”, which was aired immediately after the congress, a whole twenty -minute block was dedicated to Zhirinovsky. More - only the events in the Donbass. During these twenty minutes, fighting off the frank mockery of the host, the leader of the LDPR managed to report that Russia is a monarchical country, that he would be perfect by the monarch, and would call him Vladimir honest that the people love the party and leader for “honesty, openness and hard positions”, and that he is a world record holder: for the sixth time it goes to the presidential elections. Previously, a five-time participant in France in France Jean-Mari Le Pen could compete with him. There are no more rivals. “But you will lose again,” Soloviev reasonably remarked. "Because the country is monarchical!" - Zhirinovsky was not at a loss.
However, the question of why he had the presidential election and was left without a direct answer. But we can look for the answer to the question of where we came from and where the most noisy, but also the brightest of the Russian system politicians came from.
Zhirinovsky: Beginning
The birthday of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, like his party-in April: 04/25/1946, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR. Father is Wolf Edelstein, mother is Alexander Zhirinovskaya. Wolf Edelstein is a man with a difficult biography: originally from the Rivne region in Poland, from a family of medium -sized entrepreneurs. When the Rivne region of Poland became part of Soviet Ukraine, a representative of an alien class was deported to Kazakhstan. There he married, but he did not stay - after the war he was sent back to Poland. Already from there, the father of the future politician moved to Israel, where in 1983 he died under the wheels of a bus. Alexander Zhirinovskaya prudently retained the name of the previous husband (by the way, an employee of the NKVD): the country was part of the struggle against cosmopolitanism. The young Vladimir Edelstein himself changed his last name in 1964, when he was going to enter the Institute of Oriental Languages. And he acted, which is not so simple for the provincial with a dubious origin. Hence the famous auto -characteristics - "Russian mother, dad - lawyer." For a long time, Zhirinovsky believed that his father graduated from the Jurfacian Sorbonne, later it turned out that his dad was not a lawyer: he received his education in Grenoble at the Faculty of Commerce. However, childhood friends claim that Little Volodya “fat” was teased in the courtyard. Remember this word, it will suddenly come up in our story, under the very curtain.
Ivay tightly supervised the KGB, from where rumors about Zhirinovsky’s connections with the committee. Receipt is a miracle. A business trip to Turkey at the end of the university is another miracle. Inyurkollia, the leadership of the Department of Mir Publishing House, work in the sector of Western Europe of the Soviet Committee for Protection of the World - continuous miracles. Especially when you consider that Zhirinovsky, at least, according to his own statements, was never a member of the CPSU. However, he managed to learn the University of Marxism-Leninism at the Faculty of International Relations (however, non-partisans were also accepted there on the recommendation of work). And even the military service was held in the political department of the headquarters of the Transcaucasian Military District in Tbilisi. There are almost no chances to cross with the committees. At the same time, Vladimir Volfovich himself his communications with the KGB and the structures close to the committee (it was approved, for example, that he was an employee of the GRU) always denied.
In order to finish with the topic of the education of Zhirinovsky, we note: he also studied at the evening department of the Yurfak of Moscow State University, and in 1998, already being a political star of the first magnitude, he defended the dissertation at the Moscow State University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on the topic “The past, present and future of the Russian nation”. Not without a scandal: they noted that the dissertation is not a scientific work, but a review of 11 volumes of the works of the leader of the liberal democrats, tried to withdraw the degree, claimed that Zhirinovsky had defended themselves for a bribe. He sued the slanderers, including deputy Ilya Ponomarev, Rosbalt agency (now entered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of media-foreign agents-a note from 2022) and Komsomolskaya Pravda won, retained the degree.
But then this, but for now, is not yet a star takes the first step in politics - in 1988, Zhirinovsky participates in the Constituent Congress of the Democratic Union Valeria Novodvorskaya. But almost immediately and leaves the foreign party: time to create your own.
Party start
According to Zhirinovsky himself, which he repeatedly repeated in different interviews, everything happened something like this-the poet Vladimir Bogachev, who managed to visit during 1988–89 and in the founders of the “Democratic Union”, and in the “democratic party” of the “democratic party” Leo Stobozhko, decided to create his own party and immediately proposed the role of Vladimir Wolfovich Leader. Zhirinovsky refused for a long time, but then surrendered, on December 13, 1989, the first meeting of the initiative group was held, and in March of the next year - the constituent congress at the Moscow Palace of Culture named after Rusakov, which, according to Zhirinovsky, he rented for personal funds, having removed the last 400 rubles from his savings bank. In the same way-himself-he came up with the name and the first, moderate-centric program of the party. By the fall, the founders quarreled, Bogachev gathered an extraordinary congress at which Zhirinovsky was expelled from the party for cooperation with the KGB. Zhirinovsky in response announced that he excludes Bogachev and Posoro from the LDPSS. He, as you know, won the struggle for the party.
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