re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The guys like Putin who were once minor low-level functionaries like Puptin hung the old guys at the top out to dry and went on to seize power. I understand now that that was the long-term plan.

If one believes in global conspiracies, Illuminati and such, this may not look like a hare-brained explanation of what happened, may even make sense. If one has a sense of history and prefers the real-world explanations - not so much.

The modern Russian Communist Party is just a relic, the real power has moved on.

Sure. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with the symbolism of having carried a party card.