National Review, August 18th, 1989
To HEAR his admirers tell it-to hear him, in certain moods, telling it himself-the most fervent antiCommunist in the world today is Mikhail Gorbachev. In a Paris press conference early in July he foresaw a "process of democratization" sweeping Eastern Europe, and admitted incidentally that as a boy he had been baptized a Christian. Later, as strikes swept Siberian and Ukrainian coal mines, he went on television to proclaim his solidarity with the miners, and declared privately that perestroika "means profound changes in attitudes toward property, the status of the individual, the basics of the...
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