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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union the Reformers Lead the Way | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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