Word: pushkino
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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When Olga Labus went to work last week at Communist Party headquarters in the Russian town of Pushkino, 20 miles from Moscow, she found the doors locked. The plaque identifying the building had been pried off the wall, and the flag stand next to the door was empty. By order of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who a few days before had been the world's top communist, Labus and tens of thousands of people like her across the Soviet Union were...
...communist, and I believe we must have a Communist Party in our country," said the 31-year-old mother of two, who worked in the economic department of the Pushkino party committee. "But now I don't know what will happen. Everything is changing too quickly." In towns like Pushkino (pop. 90,000), many Russians view the tumult sweeping Moscow with more anxiety and skepticism than do their big-city compatriots. While they welcomed the failure of the hard-line coup and admire Russian President Boris Yeltsin for his courage, they wonder if the destruction of Soviet communism will bring...
...alone. The drama of the past two weeks has done little to alter the daily routine in Pushkino. On the sidewalk in front of state stores, residents lined up to choose from the usual meager selection of canned goods and wilting vegetables, the relentless rain of an early autumn only adding to their discomfort. Outside the textile factory where he works, Ivan Shlykov, 47, waited for a bus under a shelter latticed with a hammer and sickle. "They can throw away all these symbols and drive the Communist Party underground," he said, "but what difference does it make...
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