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- GRAPEVINE, Page 27Not so Fast, Comrade
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Congress cheered when Boris Yeltsin promised last week
- that "the idol of communism" has "collapsed, never to rise
- again." But he'd better watch his back at home. Yeltsin's Vice
- President, ALEXANDER RUTSKOI, a hero of the Afghan conflict,
- openly opposes many of Yeltsin's reforms, derisively referring
- to the Russian President's aides as "little boys in pink
- shorts." Even as Yeltsin was meeting President Bush last week,
- Andrei Sidelnikov, a top Rutskoi aide and fellow war hero, was
- treating Washington to a different view, one thought to be
- shared by Rutskoi. Said Sidelnikov: "I don't see why I should
- give up the ideals of the party just because 100 or so people
- betrayed communism. Before, we had beautiful movies, sport,
- culture. And now what happens? All of our best people are going
- to America. And what do we get? Prostitutes, criminals, the
- Mafia."
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