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Apr 11, 2014 02:00 pm | Jacob Heilbrunn
In the early 1990s, the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky wrote a diverting book review in the New Republic
about Mikhail Gorbachev. His take was that Gorbachev, if I recall
correctly, had to be an American agent. Who else would have so
incompetently allowed the work of decades to crumble almost overnight?Now Russian legislators are hoping to punish Gorby, as he used to be known in America, where he was always far more popular than back home. Flush with victory in Crimea, several Duma members apparently want to put the old boy on trial. Yevgeny Gydorov, a Duma member of the United Russia party, apparently believes that Gorbachev may have been an American spy. And the Guardian reports that Ivan Nikitchuk, a Communist Party deputy, wants him to go on trial. Lawyers, not historians, need to investigate why the USSR went poof. Nor is this all. It's time to ferret out domestic enemies. He says, "The fifth column in our country has been formed and works in the open, funded by foreign money." Maybe Gorbachev was on Ronald Reagan's secret payroll?
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