Russian Communist Youth Congress in Moscow highlights need for a new Communist Party

The XVII Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Youth League (RKSM(b)) was held in Moscow in February 2026, bringing together delegates and guests from across Russia and a number of foreign countries, including Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Mexico, the Netherlands, Palestine, Paraguay, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland.

 

The Congress adopted a series of decisions aimed at defining the organization’s strategic direction and strengthening its political and organizational work in the coming period.

 

The attempt to vilify Lenin in capitalist Russia: On the occasion of the reactionary film "The Mummy"

A new “documentary”, "The Mummy," which premiered in Moscow on June 26, has ignited a firestorm of debate surrounding the legacy of Vladimir Lenin and his final resting place.  

 

Produced by the fervently religious Christian channel “Spas” (Saviour), the film argues for the destruction of Lenin's Mausoleum, portraying it as a satanic temple and a bleeding wound on the soul of the Russian nation. The “documentary” presents a fantastical narrative, linking the Bolsheviks and their leader to a range of dark forces, including Egyptian pharaohs, Babylonian ziggurats, and Masonic conspiracies aimed at global domination by Satan. 

 

Russia: On the campaign against the “scientific center” named after fascist Ivan Ilyin

Resolution of the Central Committee of Revolutionary Communist Youth League of Russia (Bolsheviks) RKSM(b):

In April 2024, another political scandal broke in our country. Students at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) have publicly opposed the ‘educational and research centre’ named after the philosopher Ivan Ilyin, which had opened at the university. 

This is the same man who lived for a long time in Hitler’s Germany, supported fascism and applauded the Nazi attack on our Motherland. 

Revolutionary Komsomol: Statement on the second anniversary of the imperialist war in Ukraine

In a statement about the two years since the imperialist war in Ukraine, the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Youth League of Russia (Bolsheviks) stresses out the following:

Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) on the territory of Ukraine has begun. 

Since the beginning of the SMO, the RKSM(b) has issued a number of statements devoted to the problems of combat operations on the territory of Ukraine. We list them below: