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memoirs of leading Russian politicians. Rather, one has to put up with the plurality
of truths, as is common in historiography. The leading figures of the period of
perestroika keep justifying their own actions and accusing their one-time antagonists
and opponents, thus fighting for their place in history. Settling of old accounts,
public enmity and hatred, deliberate lies and provocations, slander and fabrications
and extreme irrationalism are by far not exceptional. Severe accusations of crime,
genocide, conspiracy, treason, etc. are being hurled at one another. The various
domestic and external conspiracy theories, particularly those originating in the
former KGB circles, can be viewed as a fruit of extreme subjectivism and fantasy.
The Russian memoir literature does not feature any consensus on the extinction
of the empire.
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All the advocates of the preservation of the Soviet Union, including Gorbachev,
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