Gorbachev speaks out
(Canscene) –25 years after his leadership of the dying USSR, when he announced his policy of peresroika, Mikhail Gorbachev has published a statement of concern, here reproduced thanks to E Poshta the blingual Ukrainian internet site.
“PERESTROIKA, the series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency — not just because of the 25th anniversary, but also because Russia is again facing the challenge of change. In moments like this, it is appropriate and necessary to look back…”