Two years ago the incumbent president, Alexander Kwasniewski, a former communist like Mr Miller, politically annihilated him when he ran for the job.

ECONOMIST: Poland's government

What's he say to Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland?

NPR: Transcript of Presidential Debate

True enough though the chances of a Communist president would be hugely enhanced if the party changed its name (as its cousins in Central Europe have done), disavowed much of its history, embraced a bit of free-marketry, and had the nous to put a youthful person like Poland's president, Alexander Kwasniewski, at its head.

ECONOMIST: Could it lead to fascism?