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course tremendously speeded up the whole pro-capitalist process which was in train anyway. It gave the opportunity for the most vigorously pro-market wing bureaucracy, led by Yeltsin, to plans. the political leadership of the bureaucracy looked the reality of the Soviet Union in the face; and they saw that a general, systemic stagnation had overtaken the rapid economic gains of the post-war period The need for an overhaul of the system was first recognised by Gorbachev's former patron, Andropov, former head of the KGB, knew better than anyone eise the real details of the Soviet Union's stagnation and decline.
What some or Goroachey s 'campist' critics don't see is that the Soviet Union was on the road to disaster and collapse •hat?
And here we come back to the crux of the matter. Anyone who thinks that without GOr bachev and perestroika we would be coasting along with ome new form of Brezhnevism is day dreaming For a transformation of the Soviet Wards democratic socialism, the only way to avoid the horrible his torical price which will be paid for capitalist restoration, is for a mass labour and socialist move emerge and take power. It is a huge task which is just beginning
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