Most of the charges are widely seen as propaganda tools of Mr. Yeltsin's Communist rivals, and have no chance of being approved.
South Korea today authorized a $19 million investment package for its impoverished Communist rival, North Korea.
The "free world" triumphed over its Communist rival, the "free market" over the idea of a planned economy, and the "free individual" over the ethic of social citizenship.
Mr. Papandreou, 72 years old, has said the charges against him are a conspiracy originated by his conservative and Communist political rivals after his defeat in the 1989 general elections.
The dissolution of the cold war in particular reveals that the liberal-democratic idea has permanently triumphed over its Communist rival, he said.
From the start of the campaign, Mr. Yeltsin's Communist rivals have sought to capitalize on the military's distress over its diminished status.
The consolation is that their Communist rivals are also looking increasingly miserable.
It is true that Mr. Wu and other Nationalist leaders had careers that sometimes intertwined with those of their Communist rivals.
Having used his first term to undermine Communist rivals on the left, he starts his second with a stunning blow to the Gaullists on his right.
They worked on behalf of the Socialist-supported Southern Tenant Farmers Union against the Sharecroppers Union, which was led by their Communist rivals.