Re: 13 years since the August putsch (USSR collapse)

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
Gorbachev's provincial dialect and verbal gaffs are
the stuff of legend, especially among snooty
Muscovites.
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E.g. see this arch-Muscovite-snob piece of
Gorbachev-bashing by Sergei Roy:

At heart, Gorbachev was a typical provincial Russian
Bolshevik with an almost innate faith in incantations
and in the "Party's organizational and mobilizing
role": All you had to do was proclaim a slogan, give
Party workers their guidelines and assignments, the
Party would set to work on prostye truzheniki the
"simple toilers," and - voila! You have perestroika,
acceleration or anything your heart might desire -
conquest of man over nature, Baikal-Amur Railway,
whatever. The really amazing thing is, of course, that
the system sometimes worked - although it invariably
got something entirely different from what it had
bargained for.

http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2004-16-14



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