Soviet Glasnost
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FlagMan
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
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California, United States
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Let's see if we can get this bug to Russia!
This is an Instant Travel Bug made from an item found in the Binary Tree Puzzle Cache by Mary Magdalene's Negro Baby (GCK9MM). The words on the dial translate into the former USSR and Glasnost.
CCCP does NOT stand for the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry!
GLASNOST is defined as the Soviet cultural and social policy of the late 1980s. Following his ascension to the leadership of the USSR in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev began to promote a policy of openness in public discussions about current and historical problems. The policy was termed glasnost [openness]. The brutality of the Stalin era, such as the great purges and the Katyn massacre, were acknowledged, and the corruption and stagnation of the Brezhnev era were sharply criticized. Soviet leaders became more receptive both to the media and to foreign leaders as a new period of detente opened between East and West. Gorbachev hoped that a candidness about the state of the country would accelerate his perestroika program. Most people credit Glasnost as being one of the principal contributing factors to the end of the Cold War. This item is probably worth a few rubles, so I hope it does not get plundered!
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