I Began To Feel The Desire For

What Happened To The Soviet Union Happened Mainly For Domestic Reasons. It Was A Failure Of The Model Based On A Command Economy And Dictatorship. The Rejection Of Freedom And Democracy, The Decisionmaking Monopoly Of One Party, And The Monopoly Of One Ideology All Had A Chilling Effect On The Country. That Model Turned Out To Be Incapable Of Making Structural Changes. It Did Not Open Up Ways For Initiative And Was Overly Centralized.

The World Will Not Accept Dictatorship Or Domination.

We Have No Right Ever To Forget That Psychological Warfare Is A Struggle For Winning People's Minds.

Without Perestroika, The Cold War Simply Would Not Have Ended. But The World Could Not Continue Developing As It Had, With The Stark Menace Of Nuclear War Ever Present.

The Union Was Destroyed Against The Will Of The People, And It Was Done Deliberately - With The Participation Of The Russian Leadership, On The One Hand, And That Of The Putschists, On The Other.