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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...usual method -- by means of force, this time ordered by a President empowered to do so. Such is the dramatic and even tragic nature of the present situation: instead of moving ahead toward doing away with the empire, we have become like rabbits transfixed before a boa constrictor. All we are doing is returning to an age of centralization and dictatorship -- this time in the form of the presidency, since the President of a disintegrating Soviet Union can only emerge as its dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Empire: Essay: Why the Empire Should Crumble | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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