Soviet reform movement rubbing off on Poland

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: December 19, 1986| Author: Georgie Anne Geyer | Copyright information
Writing from Warsaw

Knowing the Soviet Union personally, I have been most reluctant to say that that vast conglomeration of suspicion and solitude could really change, much less liberalize. Now I am beginning to change my mind.

One of my most trusted journalistic rules over the years has been the assurance that you can begin to see changes in giant structures or nations by studying their peripheries. Poland is perhaps the most symbolic state along the Soviet periphery, and what...

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