Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
In the 1980s, why did Gorbachev say that there should be no more "rose-colored glasses"?
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Gorbachev said that there should be no more "rose-colored glasses" and that the time had come to fill in the "blank spots"of history. He knew that there needed to be a full and ruthless assessment of what had happened in the past if real change was to ever occur in the Soviet Union.
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire