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...revolution betrayed, are being staged at home. If Muller, 61, were to dramatize the end of the Communist regime in East Berlin, he says, "it would be a tragedy about incompetence and stupidity." He adds that many figures in recent history wouldn't make strong fictional characters. One exception: Lenin...
With new urgency, an old joke is making the rounds in Moscow. It may not be a knee slapper, but the times make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...
...there's California too. The state that gave birth to the taxpayer revolt in the 1970s took a step back last week from the antitax orthodoxy that has kept American government in a fiscal straitjacket ever since. California voters, who have tended to feel about taxes the way Lenin felt about capital gains, agreed to ballot Proposition 111, which doubles the state gasoline levy to fund improvements for gridlocked highways. The outcome of that vote reverberated not just on the West Coast but all the way to Washington...
When the U.S.S.R. was born, there was a heated debate. Lenin was of the view that the Union should be a federation of equal republics, while Stalin in effect favored a unitary state. Lenin's approach was formally adopted in 1922, but in real life things turned out quite differently. It's only now that we are beginning to create a new Union in the original sense of that concept. A truly democratic multinational state and the progress of perestroika are mutually interdependent; each depends very much on the other...
Seated under a portrait of Lenin in his Foreign Ministry office in Moscow last week, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Komplektov explained that initial response to Washington's strategy. "We never believed that Central America was the key to improved superpower relations," he said. "We did, however, believe that Central America is especially important because conservatives consider the region as a litmus test of a President's toughness." This led Moscow to misinterpret Bush's opening. "Who was Bush but Reagan's man?" says Yuri Pavlov, the Soviet's top Latin America policy assistant. "That's how we incorrectly looked...