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Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. it was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. the admiration of the west in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. but let us be clear that it was mikhail gorbachev, and not boris yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of russia.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Gorbachev's Administration Was Amazingly Politically Naïve, Inexperienced

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. it was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. the admiration of the west in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. but let us be clear that it was mikhail gorbachev, and not boris yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of russia.
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