Ukraine's Communist face poll wipeout (analyst) As Ukraine gears up to vote in snap parliamentary elections after a year of dramatic upheaval, the Communist party is finding its power base has collapsed. Polls indicate that for the first time in twenty years it will fail to get into parliament, a symbolic rupture with Ukraine's Soviet past as the country lurches towards the West amid a dispute with Russia. SOUNDBITES of political analyst Vadim Karasev of the Institute of Global Strategies in Kiev.