Often, they are from the generation born just after the Communists took power in 1949.

Then, as the Communists took control in 1949, he helped organize the country's public health effort.

Russian became the major language taught in schools after the Communists took control over the country.

China's Communists take student protest seriously, and well they might.

His grandfather became rich, but the Communists took it all away.

No parties have been allowed to be formed since the Communists took power in 1949.

No date was immediately set for the first free elections since the Communists took power in 1948.

They were destroyed in early 1950s after the Communists took control and have not been rebuilt.

In that voting, the former Communists took 21.2 percent of the votes, enough to make them the state's second largest political force.

If these voting margins hold up in the second round, then the former Communists will take control.