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...vodka was back on the shelves of state-run dispensaries. In World War II, every Russian soldier at the front was given a daily ration of vodka - roughly a shot's worth - and by the 1950s Russia had fallen completely off the wagon. In 1958, the communist youth organization Komsomol Pravda complained that members of its national soccer team were so drunk they couldn't score a goal from five yards away...
...worked, Khodorkovsky would have become extremely powerful. Anyway, it came at a delicate time for Kremlin strategists: their party, Unity, is showing signs of coming apart at the seams. Khodorkovsky's apparent venture into open politics is perplexing. A former official in the Soviet Communist Party youth organization, Komsomol, he had until recently the reputation of a secretive, careful operator who accumulated a fortune by deal making, not confrontation. Putin, meanwhile, has a proven track record of destroying business magnates who cross him. The media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky opposed the war in Chechnya and failed to back Putin...
Zyuganov left Mymrino for the army and then went to Oryol, the regional capital, to study mathematics at the Oryol Pedagogical Institute, where he set himself on a fast track to a party career by leading both the student union and the local branch of the Komsomol Communist youth organization. Svetlana Voronina, a former classmate, remembers him as a voracious reader. ''Every book I bought on trips to Moscow, he wanted to read," she says. One Zyuganov favorite was a book titled Raising Children in the Atheist Manner. Mindful of his nationalist supporters, for whom the Orthodox Church is inextricably...
Only a couple of years after these events, a Komsomol expedition brought back photographs showing the massive destruction of Baikal's fish and plankton caused by toxic wastes. No accidental discharges had been logged. As always, everything was fine on paper...
...long afterward, her son Alexei was rejected by Moscow University. He was an excellent student, winning a prize in the math Olympics and graduating first in his class. But during his junior year at a new school he refused to attend the standard "Lenin class" that led to automatic Komsomol ((Communist Party youth organization)) membership. I urged him not to jeopardize his future for a minor formality. Alexei answered, "Andrei Dmitrievich, you allow yourself to be honest. Why do you advise me to behave differently...