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Nah, Chaz, it was Gorby! Michael Pugliese
...They were mentors of the last Soviet revisionist leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who has candidly admitted: "My ambition was to liquidate communism, the dictatorship over all the people . . . I knew that I could only do this if I
was the leading functionary."3 3. Mikhail Gorbachev: In interview with Turkish radio; quoted in North Star Compass, organ of the Organising Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. Reproduced in Lalkar, March/April, 2000; p.19.
-------------- Duh. Gorby is a democratic socialist (he currently heads the astoundingly inconsequential Social Democratic Party of Russia). He was all for (slowly) liquidating Communism. He was emphatically against liquidating the Soviet Union.
BTW, in the off chance that anybody out there in cyberspace can read Russian, Gorby's home page is www.gorby.ru.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal