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Your special report on the upcoming election [RUSSIA '96, May 27] suggests that Russian voters face a return to Gulags, secret police and totalitarian control over every aspect of life. This sounds more like election propaganda than informed analysis. Sure, it seems ominous that a Communist candidate like Gennadi Zyuganov is doing well with the voters, but having gone through their own Great Depression, many Russians just want to throw the rascals out of office and try something different. Americans are not well served by stories that try to reduce the complexities of Russian politics to good guys...
...matter who wins the Russian election, ordinary citizens will probably continue to suffer for the next 20 years. The June 16 election will not solve any problems in Russia. It is a race between someone people hate, Yeltsin, and someone they fear, Zyuganov. The truth is that no candidate has a platform to improve the everyday life of poor and middle-class Russians. JEAN-FRANCOIS HOULE Hull, Quebec Via E-mail
...decisive in resurrecting communism as the main political force in Russia than the West's incapacity to allow Russians to keep their national pride. Efforts to expand nato membership eastward, minimizing Russia's voice in world affairs and backing Yeltsin on every issue, are slowly paving the road for Zyuganov's victory. He will appeal to his countrymen's self-esteem and empty pockets, and to what remains of the Soviet totalitarian regime. Who would have thought that the U.S. policy toward communism would fail this way? JUAN CARLOS VELTEN Mexico City...
MOSCOW: As Boris Yeltsin and Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov prepare for a runoff election that could be held as early as June 30 to determine who will be the next president of Russia, both sides are cozying up to surprise third place finisher Alexander Lebed. After taking a strong 15 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, the retired general finds himself an important player in the run-off election. "Lebed entered the race late," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "But he has emerged as a national political leader and has staked a serious claim on the Russian political...
...uncompensated teachers with $1 billion he acquired by raiding the Central Bank's currency reserves. He and his cohorts kept up an unrelenting barrage of anticommunist rhetoric, prophesying that civil war and general catastrophe would accompany a Communist win. "Many voters were apprehensive," says Donnelly. "They feared that a Zyuganov victory would mean another round of changes, and upheavals. Most Russians are tired of changes and revolutions, and see that under Yeltsin, instability has receded." -->