"Asked to name the things he most regretted, he replied without hesitation: "The fact that I went on too long in trying to reform the Communist party." He should have resigned in April 1991, he said, and formed a democratic party of reform since the Communists were putting the brakes on all the necessary changes."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/16/gorbachev-guardian-interview?intcmp=122
Ismail Lagardien
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