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Article: USSR AND POLAND: A TURNING POINT SOVIETS SHOW NEW RESTRAINT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 24, 1989
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WASHINGTON - Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader,
probably turned a page in postwar history this week when he prodded
Poland's Communist Party to join that country's Solidarity-led
government, Soviet experts and administration officials said
yesterday.
Gorbachev's action, during a telephone conversation Tuesday
with the Polish party leader, at a minimum sent a signal to other
Eastern European nations that they may press internal reforms
without fear of intervention by Moscow, analysts said. At most,
they said, the action marked a tacit acknowledgement by the Kremlin
chief that the Soviet postwar empire is dissolving.
"This could turn out to be one of history's most famous ...