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- <title>
- Apr. 10, 1989: The New USSR
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 10, 1989 The New USSR
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE UNION, Page 46
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- <body>
- <p> Careful, there. This is no ordinary statue you're
- adjusting, but one representing the father of the state,
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the man who renamed himself Lenin and
- reshaped Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution. One crucial slip
- by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association
- (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour
- a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second
- revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting
- Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it
- to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate one, for
- the future of the Soviet Union--in some ways, the future of
- us all--is at stake. A single crucial slip and the nation's
- No. 1 sculptor might find himself starting from scratch--or
- out of a job. But what Gorbachev has already done can never be
- undone. What would Lenin think?
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- </body>
- </article>
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