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Letters: 1989 – after the wall came down

Timothy Garton Ash covers a broad canvas of post-1989 issues (Comment, 5 November), but the key failure was to leave Mikhail Gorbachev without economic support at the crucial moment. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

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