I think it's wrong to highlight Gorbachev the person. He represented the general consensus among teh CPSU at the time. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been in power. Anyway, perestroika began under Andropov.
>From: frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us>
>
>He was, and still is, a wonderful person and a true visionary, but he
>had little, possibly no understanding of where his people were at...his
>arguments for democracy were great, but hardly anyone in the soviet
>union could possibly interpret his words into actions...
>
> a sad, and common case of what happens when people become totally
>enamored with theory entertained by a handful of folks who have time to
>sit around and think, and have little or no understanding of practical,
>material reality as it is lived by almost everyone else...
>
>fs
>
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