by Vladimir Raskin by Vladimir Raskin Before perestroika was instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, human rights violations were a fundamental expression of totalitarian-state power in the Soviet Union. Paradoxically, they also contributed to the ultimate weakness of the Soviet regime, since Western pressure was in part founded on a critique of human rights violations. The Council of Europe’s decision […]
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