Citation de Apoapo
« Many people now say : did Gorbachev really not foresee it ? Of course I did foresee the theoretical possibility of a sharp conflict between the forces of renewal and reaction. And I was not alone in that. […] I tried not to allow an explosive resolution of the contradictions to take place. I wanted to gain time by making tactical moves, so as to allow the democratic process to acquire sufficient stability to ease out the old ways and to strengthen people's attachement to the new values. In short, I wanted to bring the country to a stage where any such attempt to seize power would be doomed to failure. » (p. 13)
