"If you have any difficulties explaining our policies, please call me. I will come to you and together we will go to the masses and explain to them what is happening in our country — and whether or not this is socialism."
That's Mikhail Gorbachev, sounding more like Czeslaw Milosz, putting the old East German CP leader Eric Honecker in his place.
Der Spiegel has a can't-miss piece on newly released Politburo "minutes" that coincided with the Soviet Union's collapse. Old Splotch Top comes out on top.
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