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...know exactly who he is. Yegor Gaidar, a reformist rival, argues that while the former communist parties of eastern Europe are moving toward social democracy, the Russian party "is evolving toward national socialism." Otto Latsis, a Moscow political commentator, says Zyuganov heads "the worst part of the old party apparat, the most reactionary fringe." In Washington, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, a Russian expert, says Zyuganov's Communists are "the inheritors of the most brutal system this century has known, except for the Nazis. We have nothing in common with these guys...
Gorbachev has sought power and has enjoyed wielding it not as a narrow-minded member of the Communist apparat but with a much larger purpose. He had a great plan which none of the political leaders or analysts around the world could even imagine: Gorbachev has envisioned a world in which tolerance and cooperation would prevail over mistrust and hatred...
...empty plywood panels are all that identify the former Communist Party headquarters. But if Russian democrats hope to consolidate the victory they won over hard-liners at the barricades of Moscow, they will have to do more than hoist flags and close down provincial outposts of the Communist Party apparat. They must begin filling empty store shelves, building more apartment blocks, cleaning up pollution and saving military factories from turning into rust-belt relics -- in effect, they must correct the economic and industrial carnage of seven decades of Communist rule before the people's patience runs...
Partly because of his clashes with the party apparat, Yeltsin became known as a maverick while running the Moscow party committee: he was outspoken, impetuous and disdainful of authority. He took on the entire machine in 1989 to run as Moscow's delegate-at-large for the Congress of People's Deputies. The contest was the first nationwide multicandidate parliamentary election in the Soviet Union since 1918, and Yeltsin's combative campaign won him the support of 89% of Moscow's 6 million voters, an astonishing accolade from the usually cynical and apathetic populace...
...further rocked last week by the old apparat. Three days after the election, CDU leader Lothar de Maiziere was accused of cooperating with the Stasi, the despised state security police under the old regime. The information came from the same sources who had supplied the documents that destroyed the brief political career of Wolfgang Schnur, leader of the small Democratic Awakening, a partner in the CDU alliance. Schnur resigned when the reports charging that he had provided information to the Stasi about his dissident clients proved true...