After the armistice, 3,597 returned from Communist prisoner-of-war camps and 21 chose to stay behind (for a time at least).

The editorial seemed to be urging among other members of the Communist camp to follow the Chinese example by dealing harshly with their own democracy movements.

He spoke of the "escalating" battle between the Communist camp and a fundamentally unchanged capitalist world, "with its very insidious schemes and tricks."

In the Communist camp, he was a pioneer of social compromise between the society and the Communist authorities.

Those pushed back are often subjected to artillery fire from the Vietnamese side, caught in a cross-fire between the two Communist camps.

Mr. Yeltsin's victory was in good measure the result of divisions within the Communist camp.

This means primarily nations that the postwar division of the spoils between the great powers has confirmed as members of the Communist camp, but not only those.

Yugoslavia was Communist but in neither the Soviet nor American camps.

Back in the days of "goulash Communism," Hungary used to be called the happiest barracks in the Communist camp.

But in Poland or Czechoslovakia, or elsewhere in the Communist camp, the contrary is often the case.