Word: perestroika
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...Perestroika will be whatever we will be. If we are halfway, we'll have semi- perestroika. If we rebuild with rotting lumber from former labor camps, perestroika will collapse. If we all pull the blankets toward ourselves, perestroika will freeze. What is done in the name of protecting one's cushy armchair isn't ideology, it's cushiology. Between the pro-perestroikers and the anti-perestroikers, unfortunately, there is a large group I call the "oikers." They're the ones who whine constantly about the lack of sugar and other things but do not lift a finger to stop those...
...many of them turned out to be horses with the psychology of mice. We need to do much more to be able to restore our human breed, which has suffered such losses. We must not allow ourselves to tolerate our own patience. Priterpelost is the main obstacle to perestroika...
...anti-perestroikers are trying to interpret glasnost as discrediting the achievements of socialism. But glasnost itself is an achievement of socialism. Economic perestroika, like glasnost, is being discredited, hobbled, scared off, worn down. In economics, as in literature, there are sacred cows who pretend to be defending the national interest and are actually defending only their own. Today glasnost must help the economy. Tomorrow, if glasnost is in trouble, it will be supported by the mighty shoulder of the new economy. Without personal initiative, we will not be able to move forward in either glasnost or the economy...
...because of the truth it brings to the world. But most of all, I want our country to like itself. We love it, are proud of its traditions. But not all traditions are good. And priterpelost is a bad tradition that must be rejected as being incompatible with perestroika...
...ordinary Soviets, for many a first in their lifetime. Soviet journalists have turned into political reporters, and ordinary citizens are joining with zest in the preparations for the conference. Every day the newspapers are filled with stories of rigged delegate elections and commentaries on the pros and cons of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). In a round-table debate last week sponsored by the Novosti press agency, two delegates fiercely disputed whether a guarantee of "freedom of demonstrations" should be approved at the conference. "Look what happens in the West!" one shouted. Exclaimed the other: "But it is necessary...