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To: goldsnow who wrote (21662)	10/14/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Alex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

Brezhnev Jr aims to show red is Russia's new black By James Meek in Moscow Thursday October 15, 1998 Russia's autumn collection of political fashions is streaked through with subtle Soviet revivalist shades. But Andrei Brezhnev went one step further yesterday when he sauntered on to the political catwalk wearing nothing more than his grandfather's genes. Brezhnev Junior, grandson of the late Soviet general secretary Leonid, who ruled the USSR with growing absent-mindedness for 17 years, announced yesterday that the new black of politics was red and that his new party, the All Russian Communist Movement, would put the country back on the path to "pure communism". "Under my grandad there was a stable middle class, who received 200 roubles a month and had their own flats and cars. People want that life back again," said the newcomer, whose party stands no chance of getting off the ground. Many older Russians do look back wistfully to the meagre certainties of the Brezhnev era, with its minimal guarantee of food, affordable travel within the USSR, certainty of pay whether you worked or not, good basic education, low crime and decent pensions. Few feel any affection towards the Brezhnev family themselves, emblematic of the corruption, small-mindedness and laziness among the communist elite which lent his reign the tag "the era of stagnation". Andrei Brezhnev declared yesterday that politics was in his blood, and attacked Russia's other communists for selling out to the government. But he seemed confused by the word "communism", saying that the country should seek inspiration from Stalin, modern China, and Gerhard Schroder. Leonid Brezhnev, became an object of ridicule in his later years, the butt of thousands of jokes, like the one where he is reading a speech to open the Olympic Games. "Oh," he says. "Oh, Oh, Oh... " An aide nudges him. "Mr Brezhnev, stop," he says. "You're reading the Olympic symbol." reports.guardian.co.uk