State Duma deputies called for Yeltsin Center to be checked for anti-Russian activities

On May 23, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation appealed to law enforcement agencies with a demand to check the anti-Russian activities of the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg.

In their opinion, the organization distorts history, glorifies the personality of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, presents the 1990s as a period of "democratization", glossing over the catastrophic consequences of reforms: impoverishment of the population, collapse of industry, criminalization of the state; and also promotes Western values and holds events with the participation of opposition and pro-Western figures who criticize the modern leadership of the Russian Federation..

It is noted that in the programs of the Yeltsin Center, the USSR is often positioned as a "totalitarian state", and its social and economic successes are hushed up or distorted, ignoring factors such as industrialization, victory in the Great Patriotic War, scientific and space achievements.

In addition, the community center indirectly justifies the collapse of the Soviet Union, presenting it as "inevitable," which contradicts Russia's official position on the need to preserve historical continuity, the State Duma clarified. They added that some events show sympathy for the separatist movements of the 1990s.

As Viktor Tsarikhin, first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, pointed out, the Communists consider state financing of the organization unacceptable, since, in their opinion, it fosters "unpatriotic" views among young people, serves the interests of oligarchic groups associated with the Yeltsin regime, is a tool for rewriting history and contradicts the course of strengthening sovereignty and traditional values in modern Russia..

"The contents of the expositions require separate consideration for the preservation of history and, in principle, the falsification of history, because there are suspicions about a number of expositions located in Yekaterinburg that they do not correspond to reality," Tsarikhin stressed.

Last July, a rally was held in Moscow against the opening of the Yeltsin Center branch in the capital, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Dozens of people took part in the action. According to party representatives, the intention to perpetuate Yeltsin's memory is deeply immoral and blasphemous.