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...party line than most of his followers, but even if their leader may sometimes sound like a Social Democrat, Russia's half a million communists today represent the most hard-line core of the party that once had 18 million members. If voters need any reminding of communism's horrors, the "Forward, Russia!" party of economist Boris Fyodorov has put up a huge poster in Moscow reading: 50 MILLION VICTIMS OF CIVIL WAR, COLLECTIVIZATION AND REPRESSION WOULD NOT VOTE FOR ZYUGANOV. The trouble for Yeltsin and Russia's beleaguered reformers is that on Dec. 17, much of the electorate probably...
WHEN A TRIUMPHANT LECH WALESA became President of Poland in 1990, European communism appeared to be finished for good. As police states dissolved, members by the millions tore up their party cards, and democratically elected parliaments in most of the newly free countries voted to bar communist parties from the political process...
...much of Eastern Europe, and last week the mighty Walesa himself fell victim to the comrades' comeback. Aleksander Kwasniewski, 41, a minister in the last communist Polish government, defeated the old Solidarity war-horse in a runoff presidential election. Kwasniewski's Social Democratic Party, created from the remnants of communism in 1990, already leads a governing coalition in the parliament, and the President-elect will play a vital role in the creation of a constitution to guide Poland into the next century. "He is the Moses of the Polish left," declared Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, Kwasniewski's campaign spokesman. "He guided...
...nation; the government of the day will have to convince the public each time that America must act. Precedent will certainly influence the debate, however. Intervention in Bosnia would help establish the principle that we should take action in situations that are less apocalyptic than the global struggle against communism or a direct attack on ourselves or our allies. So far Clinton has failed to explain the value of sending troops to Bosnia on those terms. If he never succeeds, it will be all the more difficult for the next President to involve troops in a similar conflict. To some...
Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich says that the election of a former communist does not mean a return to communism in Russia's former satellite: "Communists in Poland really are Social Democrats, and there is no room in their system for old-style communists. There is room in the Russian system, and Russian communists will do well in the December 17 parliamentary elections." Zarakhovich notes that Russia's communists are primarily nationalists; they appeal to a large number of people frustrated by Russia's decline in world prominence and the slow pace of the transition to a market economy. "Economic reform...