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Re: Why did the USSR fall?


>In a recent interview on Turkish radio, former USSR leader Mikhail
>Gorbachov, admitted that his ambition when leader of the USSR "was to
>liquidate communism". The transcript of the interview has appeared in the
>latest edition of Northstar Compass published in Canada by the Organising
>Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. We reproduce the
>transcript below.

This interview seems implausible. I would like to see the original text.
Gorbachev was much too mealy-mouthed to have uttered a phrase like
"liquidate communism".

Louis Proyect

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