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Nikita Khrushchev once scoffed that his country would ditch communism when "a shrimp learns to whistle." Much of the world thought it heard that unlikely music last March when Soviet legislators amended the constitution to abolish the Communist Party's guaranteed monopoly on political power. Four months later, establishment baiter Boris Yeltsin shocked a party congress by staging a dramatic walkout, leading an exodus of some 2 million disaffected members. But Khrushchev's miracle may not have been quite enough. By last week, it had become clear that die-hard disciples of Marx and Lenin were determined to regain...
...appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...
After Gorbachev's accession to power, doctrinaire communism went into a six- year tailspin. But the turmoil of recent months has given the cause fresh life. Many of the party's new vanguard deny they want to turn back the clock, and yet the Kremlin has begun targeting for investigation prominent private businessman Artyom Tarasov, a self-made Moscow tycoon...
...years Harry Tisch was the leader of the Confederation of Free German Trade Unions, commanding more than 9 million members and almost limitless perks. But when communism fell, so did Tisch, and last week he became the first member of the former East German regime to go on trial for abusing his power. Among the charges against him: diverting $70 million in union funds to personal projects, including the construction of a luxury hunting lodge on the Baltic...
...Cold War and the decline of bipolarity has driven a large wedge into the U.S./Israeli "community of interests." The U.S. no longer needs a vigilant standard bearer in the global battle to stem the tide of Communism. It no longer needs to maintain costly alliances that have outlived their usefulness in order to preserve America's status as a trustworthy protector. Budget deficits now take precedence over credibility crises...