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...image and the text. They have even created entire covers on the Mac. One recent example: "Starting Over," for a story on the end of the Communist Party's monopoly on power in the Soviet Union. It juxtaposed a photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev with an archival picture of Lenin...
This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev. Cost...
...Lvov the town hall, bustling with activity, is reminiscent of Lenin's headquarters in the opening days of the Bolshevik Revolution. Only this is a revolution against communist control. Youths in blue jeans huddle in smoke- filled corridors with city council representatives in peasant blouses, discussing plans to purge Lvov of emblems, propaganda posters and street names that are, in the words of one deputy, "trademarks of Soviet power." Busts of Lenin and Marx in two wall niches have already been replaced -- by vases...
Dimitrov was part of a shrinking club of embalmed communist leaders. If the trend toward democracy continues, will Lenin, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh also go up in smoke...
Putting consumer goods on Soviet shelves might also help revive the vanished work ethic and boost productivity by establishing a link between earning money and being able to buy desirable merchandise. That link was severed in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, when Lenin's relatively liberal New Economic Policy was replaced by Stalin's industrial planning and forced collectivization of agriculture...