11.   Television was shameless in its endless attacks on the Communist past.

12.   The communist past is still very much present in Poland and Germany, which have recently taken controversial measures to punish communist officials and collaborators.

13.   The Communist past can be blamed for poor construction, at least.

14.   The main industry now in this wretched town is ripping down the totems of the massive factories of the communist past.

15.   The Olympic decision is being taken by China as an affirmation that other nations support its effort to continue to shed its communist past and to open its economy.

16.   The question persists because the faces of power have stayed largely the same in Romania -- and the faces belong to the Communist past.

17.   While the election may clear a sexual hurdle, the ghosts lurking from the Communist past could prove harder to conquer.

18.   Yeltsin ran almost wholly as an alternative to a painful Communist past, reminding Russians that communism meant rationing, hunger and fear.

19.   Yet it has also forced civil society to adjust to its own independence and to reject the paternalistic stereotypes of the Communist past.

20.   Zyuganov has promised a return to the social protection of the Communist past, including the return of some companies to state ownership.