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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev turned 80 this week
More than twenty years ago I was standing on Moscow’s central Manezh Square and watched in amazement as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested the massacre of pro-independence Lithuanian demonstrators in Vilnius on January 13th 1991. At the time everyone in Russia’s chaotic pro-democracy movement was certain – Mikhail Gorbachev was to blame for this horror. For those of us who lived and acted in the 1980s, Gorbachev has two images.
RIANOVOSTI weekly column by Konstantin von Eggert
http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20110302/162828866.html
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