Citation de Apoapo
« As a person who headed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1985 I cannot avoid the question of the attitude to communists. My position is this : I am a resolute opponent of whipping up anti-communist hysteria or allowing the persecution of millions of communists, honest people who have done nothing to stain their reputation. For a long time I really did think that the CPSU could be reformed. But the August coup destroyed thoses hopes. I realized that a short time after my return from the Crimea. » (p. 46)
