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gion. He brought in the secret ballot and multiple candidates. He also allowed private labor.
“It’s fair to say that Gorbachov and the people around him Were not naive,” he continued. “It had become clear to the Russian leadership that without renewing society, without tapping into individual initiative the Soviet Union would become a third-rate, if not fifth-rate, country.”
He said Gorbachov’s mistake was believing “the soviet communist system could be salvaged...Gorbachov believed that once you got the people engaged, the system would function. What happened is that once they got the people engaged, they discovered the people hated the system. As a whole the people rushed to vote out the old guard...In the republics this took the form in independence movements.”
He said soviet rulers decided in 1990
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