Arthur Maglin
2011-08-12 07:42:38 UTC
Der Spiegel reports on documents covering Gorbachev's tenure in and loss of office.
"Gorbachev's aide Anatoly Chernyaev, for example, complains about incompetent leaders in the global communist movement, like French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais ("a dead horse") and Gus Hall, the chairman of the Communist Party USA ("a philistine with plebeian conceits")."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,779277,00.html
"Gorbachev's aide Anatoly Chernyaev, for example, complains about incompetent leaders in the global communist movement, like French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais ("a dead horse") and Gus Hall, the chairman of the Communist Party USA ("a philistine with plebeian conceits")."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,779277,00.html