Stalin Bloc - For the USSR
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The Stalin Bloc - For the USSR (Stalinskii blok - za SSSR ) was a coalition of communist political parties in Russia. It was made up in occasion of the 1999 Duma Election.
This coalition was composed by many small radical political parties including "Working Russia" led by Viktor Anpilov, Union of Officers led by Stanislav Terekhov, "Union" with its leader G.I. Tikhonbov, the Peoples Patriotic Union of Youth with its leader I.O. Maliarov, Union of Workers of Moscow, Bolshevik Platform CPSU, All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks, Russian Association of Miners Invalids, Congress of Soviet Women, All Union Society for studying the legacy of Stalin and the Vanguard of Red Youth.
Aside from the leaders of the above movements, the Stalin Bloc included Stalin's well known grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, a retired air force colonel.
The Bloc obtained 0.61% and 404.274 votes in the 1999 Duma Election.