Question by Vivian T: What’s the philosophy of openness introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev?
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Answer by oldschooldude54
It was known as “Glasnost” and wasn’t a philosophy so much as a new “policy of openness” that would permit the world to watch the then Union of the Socialist Soviet Republic’s experimentation with “perestroika” or “restructuring.”
Had Gorbi not prepared the world with his Glasnost policy, the subsequent restructuring of the country would have been perceived with an even higher degree of skepticism.
Sometimes I find myself nostalgic for the Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev era. It must have been exhilarating to have been Russian then, as after years of harsh censorship, suddenly here was the world for them to have a glimpse of and to experience.
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