Sergeant Curtis
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But that's when it was just โ they couldn't hide it anymore.
They started having the โ When the wall came down.
Or they call them the flower revolutions or the colored revolutions where all these โ
They just all started breaking apart.
There's just no way for Russia to stop it.
No, that was โ Perestroika was Gorbachev's โ that was when Gorbachev came in and he implemented, which is basically change โ
where they decided we're going to open things up.
But, of course, as soon as you did that, now you've got the press coming in.
People can read what's going on.
People can read how bad it is.
He starts trying to roll back Stalins and all of these guys, really the regime โ
stepping on everybody.
He tried to kind of move it towards, hey, let's kind of start to move toward capitalism.
Right.
They opened it up.
It was kind of like opening or change.
I forget what the word, the translation is, but yeah, it was kind of like a... And what was Glasnost?
I want to say it had something to do about being... I think that's openness.
That was openness.
One was change, one was openness.