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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was not the first time Gorbachev had used a rival's thirst to his own advantage, according to Fridrich Neznansky, who emigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1978 and who, by his own account, attended Moscow State University Law School with Gorbachev. In a speech at Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Fighting the Battle of the Bottle | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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