Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170807:00:34:00
The economic system was breaking down. >> in a country accustomed to shortages, people are saying theyve never had it so bad. >> hardliners did not like the tone of reforms introduced by gorbachev. >> gorbachevs reforms were meant to restore and refresh communism and save the soviet union and actually they had exactly the opposite effect. >> you couldnt reform this economic system. you had to throw it out. gorbachev wasnt willing or able to do that. so it was only a matter of time before the old...
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