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...Mikhail Gorbachev? An object lesson in how fragile new paradigms can be, how quickly they can be menaced by newer ones. Clinging to the Old Paradigm once its time is gone is fatal...
Chernyak hit on a central irony. While Gorbachev seems to be relying more and more on the army, KGB and other conservatives to buttress his presidential powers and save what remains of perestroika, the right seems convinced that it can do very well without Gorbachev. Many of its members regard him with open contempt as a leader who has reduced the Soviet Union, once a proud superpower, to literal beggary, making it dependent on food and other economic aid from the West...
Partly at Shevardnadze's urging, the West has placed all its hopes for a new world order on Gorbachev. French and German authorities last week even urged that aid be accelerated, arguing that at this critical time for the survival of perestroika Gorbachev needs all the help he can get. But what if the next figure to follow Shevardnadze to a podium and announce that a triumphant right has left him no choice but to resign were Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...
...Could there have been serious talks with the opposition had Mikhail Gorbachev not been in power in the Soviet Union...
...Someone once asked me whether, if Gorbachev or my modest self had not appeared at the time we did, the changes that have taken place in recent years would have been possible. I do not underestimate the role of the individual in history. But he is often not the determining factor in events. An individual's stature can only be measured by how correctly he has read the trends of the moment...