Re: 'My Ambition was to Liquidate Communism'-Gorbachov
I often have to teach this period to students to whom it's all ancient history, and I do this largely on the basis of Soviet documents of the time. If you go back to what was actually being said in the late 1980s, the arguments that were being made regarding this or that issue, and look at how ideas developed during the perestroika years, the one conclusion that you cannot reasonably draw is that it was all a malign conspiracy. Of course, when evidence becomes irrelevant, everything becomes possible...
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