>Comrade Down: Senate Forces Biden to Dump OCC Nominee, Lenin Scholar
"A White House official said the administration stood by its pick.
'Saule Omarova is eminently qualified for this position,' the official said.
She has been treated unfairly since her nomination with unacceptable red-baiting from Republicans like it’s the McCarthy era."
An exclusive new photograph shows Omarova as a proud 'Young Pioneer' - the Communist youth mass movement - at her Soviet school number 21 in Uralsk, now Oral, in Kazakhstan. She is wearing the red scarf of the movement in a picture dating from 1979-80
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