Twenty-five years ago, under Mikhail Gorbachevs reforms, :-) non-Communists began winning in the Soviet Unions parliamentary elections. In the Washington Post the next day: YELTSIN WINS LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN MOSCOW By David Remnick March 28, 1989; Page A01 MOSCOW, MARCH 27 -- In the most stunning display of dissatisfaction with Communist Party rule since the founding of the Soviet state, dozens of independent and reform-minded candidates defeated party regulars in Sundays multicandidate elections for the countrys revamped national legislature. From Sakhalin Island in the Soviet Far East to the Baltic republics 12 time zones to the west, voters with a choice between party apparatchiks and advocates of reform almost invariably chose the reformists, according to returns tallied today. One of the apparent victims of the reformist surge, according to journalists in Leningrad, was Yuri Solovyov, party chief of the Leningrad region and a nonvoting member of the ruling Communist Party Politburo. Solovyov ran unopposed, but voters in a single-candidate race have the option to accept or reject the candidate. For the party leadership, the most disturbing result may be the victory of ousted Moscow party chief and former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin, who won 89 percent of the vote in the Moscow territorial race against his party-backed opponent, the director of a limousine factory. Yeltsins victory -- by a margin of 5,118,745 to 392,633 -- is also a blow to at least two conservative Politburo members who have tried to undermine him...
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:41:46 +0000
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