Yoshie wrote:
One one hand:
* Financial Times (London)
January 5, 2001, Friday London Edition 1
SECTION: WORLD NEWS - EUROPE; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: WORLD NEWS - EUROPE: Russia turns its back on western aid:
In order to understand anything in Russia, you have to dig beneath the surface and
Yoshie:
First of all, Russian leftists need to expand the base for support of
Communism beyond "platoons of pensioners"! I don't think they can
expand it while accommodating themselves to Putin, though. It seems
to me that Zyuganov ain't smart or ambitious enough to use Putin for
his
