Word: lenin
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Coal miners in Siberia and the far north left their pits. Resolutions condemning the Emergency Committee were passed in communities from Sakhalin Island in the far east to Petrozavodsk, near the border with Finland. In Leningrad tens of thousands gathered in front of the Winter Palace, which Lenin's forces had stormed to begin the Bolshevik Revolution...
Take the example of Paradise, a farm that lies at the end of a dusty red road on the fertile plain south of Havana. A white bust of Lenin marks the entrance. By day Paradise is where Cuba's young dirty their hands with the real work of the socialist revolution, weeding, hoeing and harvesting in fields planted with banana trees. But by night it seems more of a '60s hippie commune, with parties in the "club," El Mosquito Picante (The Spicy Mosquito) and stolen kisses in the thatched hut out back...
...like professors, since many of the Western leaders believe the Soviets, Gorbachev included, do not fully understand what they are trying to do. "Every time we see him, we're reminded how profoundly ignorant of basic economics Gorbachev is," says a senior White House official. "He studied Marx and Lenin, and he still has a lot of trouble with the idea of private property." Says a British expert: "He mistakes some adjustments, some tinkering, for economic reforms." The Western conclusion, however, is that Gorbachev deserves help and advice, not scorn...
...communist establishment adamantly opposes another name swap. Reluctant to rally behind the widely discredited Lenin, apparatchiks have focused their argument on the dubious notion that a rechristening would dishonor the martyrs of the brutal siege of Leningrad, in which the city withstood a Nazi blockade for 900 days without falling. Functionaries also complain that altering the city's name on street signs, documents and official insignia would cost 150 million rubles...
...voters want Lenin excised, nonetheless, in the well-established Soviet tradition of exorcising demons of the past by rewriting place names. The city of Lugansk has flip-flopped titles four times: Stalin made it Voroshilovgrad, after Marshal Kliment Voroshilov; Khrushchev restored the original name in his anti-Stalin campaign; his successors -- deciding that purge had gone too far -- changed it back to Voroshilovgrad; and finally (well, at least for now), the city is called Lugansk again...