As early as 1950, when she first stood for parliament in her early 20s, she said that as long as we stick to principle we have nothing to fear from Russian communism.
Untried and lacking a popular base of his own, Mr Kiriyenko has nonetheless got together the most promising (and youthful) team of Russian reformers since communism ended.
Instead of lip-service to communism and Russian dominance, pay it to capitalism and democracy, and you and your pals can still run Georgia much as you want.
Remarkably, he persuaded the government to give more than 80% of the country's entire export financing for 1997 to Ikarus, which promptly announced massively increased Russian sales and its first profit since the fall of communism.
After the collapse of communism, when Mr Klimin went into fashion, most other Russian businessmen were starting from scratch.
He was one of the first Russian oligarchs - a tiny group of tycoons who at the end of communism used their connections to become rich almost overnight.
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In multi-ethnic Dubai, where local people are in a tiny minority, the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union has brought a flood of Russian entrepreneurs, some bearing the vices associated with organised crime.
Even though Soviet communism as an idea may have failed, its interaction with the Russian population contains a powerful warning.
In the wake of the collapse of communism, the treaty was revised in 1999, in part to address Russian concerns.
It is part of a broader search by the Kremlin for a whole new set of Russian heroes, including figures from the Tsarist past - an attempt, post-communism, to give the country a common identity.
Vitaly Korotich is former editor of Ogonyok, or Little Flame, magazine, which helped revolutionize Russian journalism in the 1980s by printing articles about the grim realities of everyday existence under communism.
After seven decades of communism and two of gangster capitalism, an estimated 250, 000 of them and other Russian speakers from the former Soviet Union now live in London.
Russia will continue to bear the scars of its botched transition from communism for many years, and everyone ought to understand what ab absolute catastrophe it was for the Russian people.
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Most of the Russian-Israeli community, now more than a million strong, arrived in the 1990s, after the collapse of communism.
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