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Even well-informed Russians are reduced to theorizing about the core beliefs of Zyuganov's followers because they come in so many shapes and sizes. Sitting in the seats the communists already hold in parliament are such ill-matched party comrades as General Albert Makashov, who led the armed assault on Moscow's main television center during the abortive coup of October 1993; the so-called red millionaire Vladimir Semago, who is reported to own a string of city casinos; and Yuri Maslyukov, the last head of the Soviet State Planning Commission and a candidate member of Gorbachev's Politburo...
...great Soviet Union and the decline of their own personal fortunes. One recruit is Alexei Podberyozkin, chairman of a patriotic political organization called the Spiritual Heritage Movement, who argues, "Russia is an empire. It is Russia's historic fate that it cannot exist on any other scale." Says General Makashov: "Russia will be restored to its historic borders...
This hint that the party has something up its sleeve was so broad that even hard-liners felt they had to deny there was a plan for anything more specific than restoring Soviet power. General Makashov said sardonically, "What is our maximum program? The Kingdom of God on earth--or communism, as we call it--before the third millennium." But Zyuganov apparently felt real damage had been done. He told reporters at a press conference last Friday that his election front, which he calls "a patriotic, popular coalition," was preparing "short-term, middle-term and long-term programs" and that...
...election, in which more than 100 million Russians are eligible to vote, will be held on June 12. That leaves little time for the six registered candidates to do anything but go through the motions of a campaign. In fact, the three "unknowns" in the race -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Albert Makashov and Aman-geldy Tuleyev -- tried without success to get the vote postponed until the fall. But such problems in no way diminished the fact that for the first time in history, Russians will be able to choose their leader in a democratic ballot...
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