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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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"How We Must Rebuild Russia" in Komsomolskaya Pravda (18 September 1990)

 

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