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Communists Headed Back into Power?
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Russia's Communists expect the global financial
crisis will cause social unrest and help them challenge for power, the
party's leader said on Saturday, in a Reuters report.

Gennady Zyuganov told the party's annual congress the Communists
should make maximum use of the growing public discontent caused by the
economic downturn to try to restore their political strength.

"The wind of history is blowing in our sails again ... At this time
of crisis the world of imperialism is starting to die. We are standing
on the threshold of political and social shifts," Zyuganov said in a
2-hour speech opening the congress.

Russia's Communists ruled the Soviet Union for eight decades and
remained a major opposition force for several years after the collapse
of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.

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