So it's just a label for leftists. Even if they are being conservative at the time. Fun story. During the collapse of USSR, a local band wrote popular song tha

So it's just a label for leftists. Even if they are being conservative at the time. Fun story. During the collapse of USSR, a local band wrote popular song that had a line saying "conservative idiots strangled us in wires". Later on, most of independence movement formed Conservatives party. As in, the word itself is party title. Song quickly dropped the "conservatives" word :)