Word: gorbachevized
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...legacy, still live unwillingly outside their native regions. Now, increasingly, these unhappy outcasts are demanding their old lands back. But going home is problematic when home has been usurped. After the Meskhetians and other groups were driven out during World War II, new communities moved in. So even though Gorbachev's government has denounced Stalin's deportations, it faces major obstacles in reversing the past...
...list of worries, but Mikhail Gorbachev seems to have fallen from grace with many Western experts on the Soviet Union. Even among some who applauded him in the past, there is not only a deepening pessimism about the future of reform but also a new, almost ad hominem sourness about the chief reformer himself...
...characteristic blast, Aurel Braun and Richard Day, two respected political scientists at the University of Toronto's Center for Russian and East European Studies, recently called Gorbachev a loser who has been "mishandling reforms and desperately trying to cling to power." Variations on that theme, usually delivered more in sorrow than in anger, are gaining currency. A veteran of the U.S. intelligence community last week said Gorbachev's "blunders are plunging Russia into a new Time of Troubles." That is an ominous reference to nearly a decade of Kremlin intrigue, civil unrest and international conflict in the 17th century...
Life on the Politburo is not a lot of fun these days. If Mikhail Gorbachev isn't changing the job descriptions of the Soviet leaders, the parliament is poking its nose into party business. Now the Supreme Soviet's Commission on Privileges is taking an ax to some of the things that made party life worth living, specifically the comfortable dachas, or country houses, enjoyed by the elite...
Under a new Soviet law, more than 20 homes will be turned over to the Health Ministry. Only Gorbachev and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov will retain their country residences. Says Ella Panfilova, a commission staffer: "We've already had people calling to complain. Some are really angry...