Russia still has its share of die-hard Communists who want nothing to do with religion.
He was denounced by both die-hard Communists and die-hard anti-Communists.
Among the reasons for the setbacks are objections raised by die-hard Communists suspicious of the West and local leaders anxious to increase their region's take.
The motive of die-hard Communists and Russian nationalists is simple: they pine for empire.
Plan Called Too Harsh Nobody except die-hard Communists seriously disagree with the need to stabilize the ruble and introduce a free market.
Already die-hard Communists inveighed against what they perceived as surrender to the ideological foe.
But since Perm remains a haven for die-hard Communists, a mob of protesters began to form, shouting that the film would somehow humiliate Russia and communism.
That the hemisphere's most defiantly die-hard Communist would have opened his doors to a capitalist swindler is perversely fitting.
Several thousand die-hard Communists and nationalists bellowed outside.
The traveling ambassador of the People's Revolution couldn't be too careful these days, in a world where die-hard Communists were posted to a spot on the endangered-species list.