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Mostly party hardliners devoted to the old ways had come into office through the new, more democratic elections.
Saturn is lining up with Uranus at the end of Sagittarius, which is the Scorpio section of the philosophical sign. Gorbachev was such an idealist. Oh how he loved his country but loved the western democracies too.
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The two slow planets are going retrograde. In the pages leading up to this account of the big conference we get a good blow by blow of the Andreyevo Manifesto. Remnick Interviews Andreyeva. Here's another account Quillett account of Andreyeva Manifesto.
I can't wait to look at the ephemeris for 1988 and a chart for March 13 when the lengthy denunciation of Gorbachev's initiatives was first published.
