As second-in-command of Russia’s Communist Party, Valentin Kuptsov is a force to be reckoned with, despite his minimal public presence. He represents a relatively undiluted strain of communism that prefers Josef Stalin to Mikhail Gorbachev and seeks to gradually restore the Soviet Union by Sven Gunnar Simonsen Judging by his position in the State Duma–as […]

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