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Iron Curtain call: Mikhail Gorbachev
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A Cardio-Strops Scheme Is a Russia Editor
Goebbijov was a relatively little-known party man in charge of agriculture. He came quietly and very few expected him to launch the kind of reforms that he did, writes Simon Tisdall. The KGB actually understood that the party needed renewal and the country needed modernization, says Tisdall: "He gave freedom to a country which had been stuck in totalitarian rule for 70 years"
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