Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Some folks credit Reagan's tenacity (and deficit spending) for precipitating the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Some folks credit Gorbachev, either for his humanity and optimism, or for his lack of foresight in predicting what would become of a Totalitarian conglomeration of states if the central authority ever took its foot off the throat of the people.
I guess Gorbachev wants it known he falls in the last camp.
And after the guilty verdict, to the gulag.
Some folks credit Gorbachev, either for his humanity and optimism, or for his lack of foresight in predicting what would become of a Totalitarian conglomeration of states if the central authority ever took its foot off the throat of the people.
I guess Gorbachev wants it known he falls in the last camp.
Gorbachev, whose political reforms led to the collapse of the communist empire, said he should have squashed the challenge from Boris Yeltsin, his arch-rival and subsequently first Russian president, by sending him into diplomatic exile.
And he said separatist outbreaks that plagued his last years in power should have been crushed by taking their leaders to court.
And after the guilty verdict, to the gulag.
