21.   It took little time for the former communists to understand that they had been badly beaten.

22.   Kohl never misses a chance to remind voters that Social Democrats govern Saxony-Anhalt with tacit support from former communists.

23.   Mrs. Ostap said she would vote for the former communists.

24.   One of the most politically engaged filmmakers working in France today, he is a former communist who still maintains a strong, if troubled, idealism.

25.   Recent studies show that the former communists face a host of problems as they try to integrate into the hard-charging, capitalist South.

26.   Royalists like Ranariddh and former communists like Hun Sen both face issues of legitimacy among Cambodians.

27.   That, coming from a former communist, is ... well, outrageous.

28.   The coalition will give the former communists, the Democratic Left Alliance, control over a solid majority in the parliament.

29.   The current prime minister, Jozef Oleksy, is a former communist and a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, the party Kwasniewski heads.

30.   The former communists slightly improved their share, by about half a percentage point.