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There's a similar story of years earlier Mikhail Gorbachev visiting a Canadian grocery and being surprised and impressed. https://www.tvo.org/article/in-1983-g
by Tiktaalik 4y ago
There's a similar story of years earlier Mikhail Gorbachev visiting a Canadian grocery and being surprised and impressed.
https://www.tvo.org/article/in-1983-gorbachev-took-a-stroll-in-small-town-ontario-that-helped-shape-the-future-of-the-soviet https://www.tvo.org/article/in-1983-gorbachev-took-a-stroll-...
- alamortsubite 4y agoThis is a much better article. It rings truer to the spirit of OP's post, whose timeline I think is too advanced to be believable; by '89 the tide had already turned.