Overview for fall-of-communism

Back in (What Was) the USSR

The last time I was in Russia was 1982, communism was a fading but malignant power ... Leonid Brezhnev was near death, and KGB boss Yuri Andropov was about to take over (and would die within a year). At the time there was widespread, orchestrated paranoia over President Ronald Reagan’s supposed …

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Written by Peter Worthington on Friday September 9, 2011