Word: loosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the men who run the Soviet Union will loosen their control of the economy enough to make the reforms succeed is doubtful. Throughout Soviet discussion of economic reform runs an unstated but central theme: liberalization of the economy might lead to political heresy. In the view of some Western experts, the combination of economic reform and disintegration of Communist Party control in Czechoslovakia in 1968 weighs on the minds of Soviet leaders as they consider how far to go with reforms at home...