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Originally posted by sgtclub
True, but Gorbachev didn't really have any choice. And remember, he came to office to save communism, not to reform it. Making the jump was very adept, politically, but let's not pretend that this had been his intent all along.
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I'm saying I don't believe things are inevitable, and you're saying they are. There are some things that were beyond Gorbachev's power, doubtless, but if he tried less reform, or more, or repression, etc., who knows what would have happened. The Soviet Union careened on that course for a long time before it cratered. I'm sure Gorbachev's intent was not to preside over what happened. He was a reformer, not a revolutionary.
