They’re not real Cossacks, they’re more like beggars – they do nothing but plead for state donations.NINA BERDNIKOVA, TV JOURNALIST, MOSCOWYeltsin’s bombardment of the White House in 1993 exposed his so- called democracy as a sham. We have our own businesses, farms, factories, we don’t need donations from the state. She has just bought a Staywell catflap for her ginger tom, Basil. And, in the accompanying brochure, she discovered that Isaac Newton was a cat lover; not only that, but he had a hole cut in his barn so that his cat could come and go freely. And when the cat had kittens, he cut a smaller hole for them in the door. “It is possible,” reports the brochure, “that Newton may have been conducting an experiment on cat behaviour, but it is more likely that he simply had not realised that the kittens could have easily used their mother’s pet door.” I also notice that the Genzyme Transgenics Corporation, of Framingham, Massachusetts, is conducting transgenic experiments on the milk producing abilities of mice (mice, as you know, have a similar system to dairy animals).

We admit only sober, healthy, hardworking people, all with high education, or qualified workers. There was shared ownership of the land, with fixed rights and obligations. Firstly, to work the land for the benefit of the whole community. Secondly, all the men should have military training, so that if the motherland is threatened they can protect her properly.Today’s Cossacks are also split Our division is the Cossack Brotherhood.

If you know Russian history, the Cossacks were split after the Revolution. Half of them were with the Red Army, half were against the new regime. But it was not their spirit and culture that was split, they were only divided by their village leaders, the Attamani, who decided to join one side or another for their own benefit.Even under Stalin, not all the Cossacks were repressed. During the Second World War there was a famous elite Cossack division which won many victories under the red flag.A genuine Cossack community has always lived according to principles similar to Communism.

Later I was illegally arrested and held in prison without charge for nine months. I was only released after a number of deputies, including Zyuganov, intervened in my case.Gennady Andreyevich is a sober, clever and very honest man, and I believe that he is the only person who can find a way out of the crisis the country is in, and rebuild the army.We are not afraid that the Cossacks will have problems under the renewed Communists. I support the theory of the Modern Russian Idea, which encompasses spiritual rebirth and the power of the Russian state The epitome of that was the Soviet Union. After the Revolution the country was completely destroyed in the early Twenties, yet within 20 years it became so powerful that only the Soviet Union could conquer the fascist plague, and save Europe.We can never have real democracy, it’s not in people’s genes. In the West people have inclined to individualism for centuries Russians are natural collectivists; that is our tradition.