Tag #148262 - Interview #95316 (Rahil Shabad)

I did not quite get the events taken place in late 1980s, namely perestroika [43] in USSR, initiated by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Mikhail Gorbachev [44]. In my opinion, perestroika was supposed to be gradual. For instance, they could start from agriculture – give the opportunity for the rural people to get property rights for land, till it and sell the products. In reality things were happening simultaneously, which undermined much, without having restored.