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...village notables had planned to organize a committee to re-elect the President. "But we didn't get around to it," said the head teacher, Nikolai Lychev. Anyway, he added, the regional Yeltsin campaign headquarters in Arkhangel'sk did not send any materials till the day before the vote. By then, campaigning was prohibited. Yeltsin won Sogra and the surrounding villages anyway. He received 538 votes; Zyuganov came in second with 378, followed by General Alexander Lebed with 262 and Vladimir Zhirinovsky a distant fourth...
Given this miserable situation, Romanov was asked, why did so many people vote for Yeltsin? A long pause. "I don't know," he said. Lychev, the schoolteacher, expressed disdain for Yeltsin but voted for him anyway. "It was a case of the lesser evil," he said. "The one thing I wanted to avoid was a turn back to the past." The village's fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote...
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