The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.