This was workers' Berlin, a communist stronghold of the 1920s.

As a result, thousands of former students who fled to the jungle before, left the communist strongholds.

From 1950 to the mid-1990s, Marseille was a socialist and communist stronghold.

Many farm regions are already Communist strongholds, and without reform they are likely to stay that way.

The place is a communist stronghold with communists winning majority in the panchayat elections.

The mining areas of Kladno was a communist stronghold.

In nearby Bhaktapur, traditionally a communist stronghold, police killed five demonstrators and wounded at least 20 others.

By 1989 Salfit was still a communist stronghold.

In the 1982 the party got its first mayor in the Communist stronghold of Beerta.

In some ways, Tambov and especially the farming villages that sprawl around it make an unlikely Communist stronghold.