And yet, glasnost or not, the organs of the Soviet state were no more ready to disclose the truth about the myriad failures of Socialist technology than they had ever been. When a draft copy of the report eventually reached the Central Committee, the head of the Energy Department was horrified by what he read. He forwarded it to the KGB with a note attached: “This report contains information that blackens the name of Soviet science. . . . We think it expedient that its authors face punishment by the Party and the criminal court.”
