Word: pro-communist
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...last week Miami's beloved daughter found herself under attack by many of the same people who once adored her. On Spanish-language radio, she was blasted as a pro-communist traitor. Fellow Cuban exiles threatened to burn her CDs in the streets of Calle Ocho, the main drag in Little Havana...
...decades, Africa could count on the cold war as an economic resource. The U.S. and the former Soviet Union muscled each other through African proxies, pouring in money to prop up pro-Western or pro-Communist surrogates. Now the big powers' priorities have gone elsewhere. Russia's most prominent expert on African economies, Sergei Shatalov, devotes his attention to his own country's debt problems. Europe's available investment capital is being diverted to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states...
Yeltsin needs more than just positive reporting to win the presidency. Early last week, pro-Communist Party newspapers claimed that Yeltsin's support had slid to 44% and chief rival Nikolai Ryzhkov's had risen to a surprisingly respectable 27%. The candidate seemed unfazed by the news. "These figures go up and down," he said in a nationally televised interview. Then, in characteristic fashion, he took off his suit jacket and conducted the rest of the session in his shirt sleeves...
...Russian nationalists defy easy classification. The Russian Patriotic Movement peddles pictures of Czar Nicholas II and newspapers promoting the monarchy as the "only guarantee for liquidating the vices of the communist years of evil." Other groups include the pro-communist United Front of Workers. What unites the monarchists and the neo-Stalinists is opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. As literary critic Vladimir Bondarenko puts it, "Russia does not need perestroika. Russia needs a revival...
...United Peasant Party, which claims a membership of 500,000, has been allied with the Communists since its creation in 1949 after the forced merger of a pro-Communist Peasant Party and an opposition Peasant Party. It has been allowed to develop a more independent policy in the last decade, and about one-third of its 76 deputies support Solidarity...