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No, the surprise was that it took so long for communists to trot out this old card, and that the echo was so feeble.
For Duma members, the majority being communist, there yet remains the notion that only they, as communists, represent the country.
Here Zyuganov reacted quickly, saying that "prosecution is not the tool communists should exercise, and the Communist Party is the party of the future, not the party of revenge."
In that, there is a sign that even the Communists recognize that, at the end of one century and the beginning of a new one, the old vulgar tricks are not enough.
Muslims have replaced Jews and Communists as "the others" of Europe - Europe's demons, threatening and malignant, as in the Middle Ages.
But they recovered their political voice -- in fact, most of the current leaders of the ex-communist countries are themselves former communists -- and they are advocating a slowdown in the pace of change that appeals to the elderly and others hurt by the transformation process.
Even today, Greek communists, including several Syriza cadres, portray themselves as the heirs of the left-wing struggle against the Nazi and fascist occupation.
It is often forgotten that many Tibetans, especially educated people in the larger towns, were so keen to modernize their society in the mid-twentieth century that they saw the Chinese Communists as allies against rule by holy monks and serf-owning landlords.
Alas, instead of reforming Tibetan society and culture, the Chinese Communists ended up wrecking it.
In any case, it is not liberals who can get people into the streets in Russia; it is the Communists and nationalists.
What would happen, I asked him at the time, if the communists lost?
If Hungary were to hold a genuinely democratic election, and if the communists lost, would Moscow intervene, as in 1956?
Of Obama’s White House, he says, “there are communists, Marxists, revolutionaries all around this president.”
At the core of Magris’ book is the destiny of a group of Italian communists who travel to Yugoslavia after the Second World War to contribute to the construction of a socialist society, only to be caught in the conflict between Stalin and Tito.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
And it was after the Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that the US helped to turn China into an export juggernaut that has accumulated massive trade surpluses and become the principal source of capital flows to the US.
They were not happy when, in the 1970s, their older sons became communists, strongly opposing the brutal regime of Hafez al-Assad, President Bashar al-Assad’s father.
Only their openly reactionary attitude may have cost the Communists last July's election.
Restituents -- those 18% of respondents who received property previously owned by a member of their family but confiscated by the communists in 1947 -- are similarly cheery: 66% of them express satisfaction with reform, versus 49% for non-restituents.
But even Charles de Gaulle, a resistance leader of the right, had to accept Communists in his first postwar government, and he agreed to nationalize industries and banks.
The communists have been wiped out and the socialists badly weakened.
Two reasons reveal why markets celebrated: Communists were more likely to deliver stable government than the right; and, Communists were determined to act on the huge budget deficit that cast the shadow of bankruptcy over an economy that would otherwise have qualified as the most successful major economy after Japan.
Just as only Begin could make peace with Egypt, de Klerk turn South Africa into a multi-racial society, and KGB apparatchik named Andropov to lay the foundations of perestroika and glasnost, so it may take socialists to reduce the welfare state to manageable size and former communists to restore sound financial management to capitalist countries nearly ruined by rightwing regimes -- whether by corruption, as in Italy, or by ideological fantasy, as in America and Britain.
We now live in a world where former communists must take pride in becoming successful managers of a capitalist economy.
Why, indeed, have left-wing parties, the political heirs of the communists, succeeded in winning elections in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia?
Agrarian parties have formed coalitions with former communists in many countries.
Social democrats were always despised by communists, and vice versa.
This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.
He lamented that the Hungarian communists “had killed virtually no counterrevolutionaries: that’s why there was a Hungarian incident”; and he fully supported the Soviets’ brutal repression of the uprising.
Among other benefits, this would undermine the power of the communists; of course, that makes it extra difficult to do.
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