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My election campaign: the liquidation of KGB and Soviet Government

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: My election campaign: the liquidation of KGB and Soviet Government

My election campaign was underway. I informed people of my program which included among many other details:
the liquidation of Soviet Government;
the abolishment of the KGB;
the promise to prioritize the interests of private citizens above those of the state,
to abolish all but five of the forty active Read the rest of this entry »

I was started the first capitalist revolution in the country

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: I was started the first capitalist revolution in the country!

– “Enough of our hush-hush talks,” I said. “The campaign must be fair and above-board. Let our programs compete openly. As for the people they’ll decide for themselves what is best for them.” Read the rest of this entry »

Ilyumzhinov, Vanga, Dalai Lama and Kalmykia

Taking the decision to run for president of Kalmykia, I realized clearly that people were fed up with continuous elections, political intrigues and playing at democracy. What Kalmykia needed was a dramatic change of structure and attitude which would take the needs of the people into consideration, and would awaken and instill in each citizen the belief that he could, and must, earn a real wage for real work, rather than the miserable pennies which he was paid now. The republic must quickly embrace a market economy before it was too late.

I was fully aware that if I were elected president my popularity would swiftly slide downhill. Read the rest of this entry »

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about Communism in Soviet Union

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about Communism in Soviet Union. We students had free access to many western publications. A number of articles on UFOs, on they way in which a person’s individuality manifests itself in their handwriting, on the experience of clinical death, on clairvoyance and bio-energy, aroused my interest and I became an avid reader of everything dedicated to these enigmatic phenomena. I spent my evenings translating articles and notes from the foreign press and in the mornings I hurried back to the institute.

That is not to say that I was a total square, who poured over books constantly, diligently took notes in lectures, was never late for class and never played truant. I was a normal Soviet student; I liked to go dancing, I had been Read the rest of this entry »