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Article: From Brezhnev Doctrine to Sinatra Doctrine: interview with Gennady Gerasimov.(Interview)
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- Demokratizatsiya
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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The perpetually witty Gennady Gerasimov was the Soviet Union's foreign ministry spokesman during the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe, and he famously labeled Soviet policy toward those events the "Sinatra Doctrine." In this lighthearted but informative interview, he speaks about the genesis of the Sinatra Doctrine label, Gorbachev's attitude toward the 1989 revolutions, the "Prague group" of new political thinking, and the lessons of Sinatra for Putin's conundrum in the "near abroad."
Demokratizatsiya: Tell us how the whole "Sinatra Doctrine" business came about.
Gerasimov: A friend of mine, I guess it was a birthday or something, gave me this ...