Glasnost on the road, to mixed review. (Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet "openness" policy in Warsaw Pact countries)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: June 8, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

Glasnost on the road, to mixed review

Under the stipulations of the BrezhnevDoctrine, no Communist country can be allowed to backslide into capitalism. So, according to the latest joke making the rounds in Moscow, the Warsaw Pact is now contemplating an invasion of the Soviet Union.

Invasion, no. But there is plenty ofguerrilla warfare as some aging Eastbloc leaders try to derail the more ambitious aspects of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas for political and economic reform. The resistance was never clearer than during Gorbachev's trip to a Warsaw Pact summit in ...

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