5 Feet of Fury

“This is what Solzhenitsyn was saying: that if everyone spoke the truth of a morning…”

the Soviet system would collapse by noon.

RELATED — Hilariously, this was written by a guy who insists on retaining his anonymity,:

The king is not going to be king very long if no one accept his right to rule. Similarly, people will not tolerate a ruling class that is populated by madmen denying reality. This is, in effect, what brought down the Soviet Empire. Even the beneficiaries of the system could no longer pretend it made any sense.

BONUS: Dig how Time says nothing about how they invented and spread anti-Reagan propaganda for decades…