Word: anticommunists
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...course of his campaign, Yeltsin promised different constituencies a sum totalling more than the Russia's 1996 GDP, and last week he paid uncompensated teachers with $1 billion he acquired by raiding the Central Bank's currency reserves. He and his cohorts kept up an unrelenting barrage of anticommunist rhetoric, prophesying that civil war and general catastrophe would accompany a Communist win. "Many voters were apprehensive," says Donnelly. "They feared that a Zyuganov victory would mean another round of changes, and upheavals. Most Russians are tired of changes and revolutions, and see that under Yeltsin, instability has receded." -->