No, Akhromeyev wasn’t murdered…Let’s ditch the conspiracy theories. His suicide was like a parting shot, a bold statement of the most essential fact: We were hurtling into an abyss. We had a great nation, it was victorious in a terrifying war, and it was collapsing. China didn’t fall. And neither did North Korea, where the people were starving to death. While little socialist Cuba stood, we were falling. And we weren’t defeated by tanks and missiles, we were destroyed by our own greatest strength: our spirit. The system and the Party rotted from the inside. And maybe, that’s why…that may have
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