Word: mymrino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mymrino, the tiny village in Russia's Black Earth region where Zyuganov was born, memories burn brightly of the young, towheaded ''Genna" leading student brigades to pick potatoes at the nearby Red October collective farm...
...whom ever joined the party, were schoolteachers. His father Andrei, a peaceful man whose hobby was beekeeping, nearly lost his right leg to a German bullet in the fighting near Sevastopol and walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. Like much of rural Russia, Mymrino still lacks plumbing and paved roads. The region suffered from the mass arrests and forced collectivization of Stalin's time, although you won't hear Zyuganov talk about that when he rhapsodizes about Russia's rural past in his speeches...
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...
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