On the morning of June 24, Tenth-Grader Dmitri Predkov, 17, stood up to answer a question in his history class at Moscow's Middle School No. 734. The question: "Is perestroika ((Gorbachev's economic and social reforms)) a natural stage in the development of Soviet socialism?" Dmitri's answer: No, it is not. He added the tart opinion that some people say otherwise "only because Gorbachev is head of our party." A classmate, looking sporty in a black leather tie, was equally bold in discussing the loosening constraints on % Soviet citizens. People of all stripes, "even fascists," he insisted, should have the legal...
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