Most people imagine a kind of political change like this only coming at the expense of great violence. And if you'd asked basically the Bolsirvek of the 1920s to look at the events of 1989 to 1991, he would have been very confused. "What he would have seen is this basically the fall of the Soviet Union was brought about by a windbag and a drunk"

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