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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
And I don't think inevitability is the right word. Nothing was inevitable. Another leader besides Gorbachev, different events, and something different might have happened.
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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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