Word: zyuganov
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...true the Zyuganov program makes obeisance to such democratic principles as unfettered political activity and freedom of opinion, religion and information. But the former Soviet constitution contained similar guarantees, all of which were ignored or defined out of existence. Zyuganov is not the communists' strongman, and if elected, he will be expected to carry out the will of the organization, which may be harsher than it admits to being...
Some Russians give Zyuganov credit for being sincere but assume party hard-liners behind the scenes are using him as a stalking horse. One of the doubters is General Alexander Lebed, a national hero and presidential candidate being wooed by Zyuganov. Lebed believes the communist candidate probably holds social-democratic views but, he told a Russian newspaper, that "those who stand behind him are communists of a Stalinist type. If they should come to power, in all likelihood they will try to turn the country back" to Soviet-style rule. Yeltsin's handlers will focus on this apprehension during...
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...
...Another Zyuganov colleague is General Valentin Varennikov, a former commander of Soviet ground troops who was acquitted of charges arising from his involvement with the putsch against Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov perhaps forgot how many audiences his party is now addressing and assured an assembly of retired military officers in mid-March that they should not be misled by the moderate propaganda they have been hearing from communist leaders. "You have read only our minimum program," said Varennikov, his dress uniform glittering with medals. "But there is also a maximum program that has never been published. Let's take...
...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 they would be presented for public debate this month...