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Half a block from the hotel, it is easy to see why. A news kiosk is burning and an armored personnel carrier blocks access to Lenin Prospect, Dushanbe's main artery. "You must not leave the hotel tonight," says the Tadzhik manager kindly but firmly. "There are many bad people around." Nonetheless, we head to Lenin Prospect to see what has happened...
...line of about 20 regular Soviet army troops in padded uniforms and helmets, carrying pale green metal shields and nightsticks, block off Lenin Prospect. Knots of Tadzhik men watch with surly stares, and the soldiers, mostly young Russian conscripts, fidget. Four APCs with idling motors guard the front of the pale brown stucco central-committee building. The day before, mobs smashed its windows and set it on fire. At one side of the debris- littered street, a soldier nonchalantly washes the bloodstains off his shield in a puddle left by melted snow...
Cover: Gorbachev photograph by Sergei Guneyev -- Novosti: Lenin photograph from Sovfoto
...think the changes are irreversible everywhere, including the Soviet Union. They may stop for a period, and there could even be some reversals. This is, after all, a revolution. All social groups, including the ruling class, are discontented. Let me quote Lenin. He said that those on the top cannot rule with old methods and those at the bottom don't agree to be ruled with those old methods...
...organization was founded in 1926 to study the gray matter of Lenin, and according to director Oleg Adrianov, it has since probed "many, many tens of brains," including those of Joseph Stalin and writer Maxim Gorky. The results of specific studies are classified...