Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza
Leader	Sergey Alexandrov
Founded	21 July 2001 (2001-07-21)
Split from	Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism
Political position	Far-left
European affiliation	INITIATIVE (defunct)
International affiliation	IMCWP ICS (defunct)
Colours	Red
Party flag
Website
cpsu.by

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) is an organization which split from the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 2001 after disagreements between Oleg Shenin and Gennady Zyuganov over the creation of a united communist party of the Union of Belarus and Russia.^[1] It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009.^[2]