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...many Soviets interpret the measure differently. They see it as one more piece of evidence that Mikhail Gorbachev has given way to hard-line pressures to curtail the reforms he ushered in himself. In the past month the Kremlin has sent the army into the Baltic republics, tightened controls over television and radio, outlawed 50- and 100-ruble notes and seems to have shelved plans for introducing a market economy. Gorbachev has also authorized KGB fraud squads to stamp out so-called economic crime. A new era of repression seems to be in the making...
That may prove wishful thinking. Although the Soviet military's bloodletting in the Baltics touched off a 100,000-strong protest march in Moscow and a stream of warnings from abroad, the Kremlin has not backed down. Its armed forces continue to rumble through the tiny republics' streets, seizing buildings and striking threatening attitudes. The Interior and Defense ministries have announced that the national police and the army will begin joint patrols next month in all major cities, apparently including the Baltic capitals. They claimed the move was intended to fight the increase in violent crime, but the heavily armed...
...security forces, it is not clear they could hold them all in check at the same time. "If they have to crack down in lots of places," says an analyst in Washington, "that could create a revolutionary situation." The Soviet people can still be frightened by threats from the Kremlin, but the period of reform has given them new courage...
...Soviet President as the last bulwark against the reactionaries. The mass defection of prominent politicians, economists, writers, artists, actors and scientists from the Gorbachev camp in the last two weeks and their alignment with the democratic movement has struck a telling blow at the moral authority of the Kremlin...
...that his republic is at the forefront of the struggle against what he calls the "reactionary turnabout." Yeltsin enjoys broad support among average Soviets, but he has no effective grass-roots political organization. He also has no reliable forum for defending himself against increasingly vicious personal attacks from Kremlin-controlled television...