On the Other Hand

Mikhail resumes his interrupted Kremlin soliloquy, after Raisa’s intrusion. (See NR, Feb. 5.)

Now, where was I? Yeah, well, I’d been saying all the good things, how we were doing all right, getting our own way in most places, leading old Ron and even the Iron Lady just where we wanted them to go. And actually, the climax—my idea of bulldozing the Berlin Wall and using a reunited Germany to do our perestroika for us—that climax is still valid, and we’ll work on it.