Photo of the Day
No. 548
symbols of empire
When the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, came to power in 1985, the Soviet economy had been stagnant for twenty years.
Shelves in stores were empty and food lines were long.
He declared it was time for radical change.
Gorbachev launched a series of economic and political reforms, called “perestroika” [reconstruction], which were int…