Quote Originally Posted by Barack Dalai Lama View Post
Yes, note how I said fairly genuine in its intention (as in, focused on preserving and spreading socialism, but in the end laid the seeds for an imperialist outlook when the USSR went revisionist).
how?

by heading such a harsh and brutal regime that people started to become severely discontent with the government?

also, though it's off topic, what do you think about yevgeny yevtushenko? i had the pleasure of performing in front of him a choral setting of his texts that shostakovich had composed in october of 2007.